This research study aimed to decrease stereotypic behaviors (e.g., face hitting, table hitting, thumb sucking) of a student with deafblindness that have had a negative impact on learning opportunities and pose a safety concern to the student. A single-subject, multi-treatment withdrawal design was used to test the effects of multiple interventions including physical prompting to engage in object manipulation of preferred items, contingent reinforcement, and response blocking, on target hand-stereotypy and object manipulation for one nine-year-old boy with deafblindness and a severe to profound intellectual disability. A functional relation was observed to show that hand-related stereotypy decreased due to prompting object manipulation and further decreased when object manipulation was reinforced with edibles. Adding the blocking component to the intervention had inconsistent positive effects on stereotypy, and a functional relation was not observed. Prompting alone did not appear to increase object manipulation until contingent reinforcement was added, and response blocking did not appear to have an additive effect to increase object manipulation. Implications for future research and practice are discussed. / A Thesis submitted to the School of Teacher Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. / Summer Semester 2018. / June 13, 2018. / Behavioral Intervention, Deafblind, Object Manipulation, Self-injurious Behavior, Stereotypy, Visually Impaired / Includes bibliographical references. / Sarah E. Ivy, Professor Directing Thesis; Jenny Rose Root, Committee Member; Sandra Lewis, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_650745 |
| Contributors | Singer, Isaac Barrett (author), Ivy, Sarah Elizabeth (professor directing thesis), Root, Jenny Rose (committee member), Lewis, Sandra (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Education (degree granting college), School of Teacher Education (degree granting departmentdgg) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text, master thesis |
| Format | 1 online resource (56 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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