Effects of Response Blocking and Programmed Stimulus Control on Motor Stereotypy: A Pilot Study |
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| Authors: | Serra R. Langone MS MEd Jessica Hamill MEd |
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| Affiliation: | May Center for Child Development , Woburn , Massachusetts , USA |
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| Abstract: | We evaluated response blocking with programmed stimulus control, wearing tennis wrist bands, to reduce motor stereotypy in a student with autism. Response blocking was effective and subsequent analysis revealed that wearing the tennis wrist bands alone maintained low frequency stereotypy. Results suggest that controlling effects from a procedure such as response blocking can be transferred to a programmed stimulus in the absence of physical intervention. |
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| Keywords: | autism motor stereotypy response blocking stimulus control |
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