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Assessment of Problem Behavior Evoked by Disruption of Ritualistic Toy Arrangements in a Child with Autism

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Specialty Social Sciences
Date 2013 Oct 12
PMID 24114164
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A functional analysis suggested that the problem behavior of a 9-year-old girl with autism was maintained by gaining the opportunity to restore ritualistic toy arrangements that had been disrupted. Functional communication training and extinction produced clear decreases in problem behavior in 2 contexts: 1 in which we removed a play item, and 1 in which we merely relocated the item and blocked its rearrangement.

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