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FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF EPISODIC SELF-INJURY CORRELATED WITH RECURRENT OTITIS MEDIA |
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| Authors: | Mark F. O'Reilly |
| Abstract: | A functional analysis examined the consequences that maintained episodic self-injury and the relationship between those consequences and otitis media for a child with moderate developmental disabilities. Results indicated that self-injury occurred only during periods of otitis media. Otitis media may have served as an establishing operation related to escape from ambient noise. |
| Keywords: | episodic self-injury functional analysis establishing operations biological setting events otitis media |