Mr. henderson wanted to stop elijahs hand flapping. he consulted with the iep committee and they decided to use hand weight to make the hand flapping more difficult in order to reduce the behavior. the behavioral procedure employed is _______.
The correct answer to this question is:
“Sensory
extinction”. Sensory
extinction is a process of eliminating self-stimulatory activities in
developmentally disabled children. Reinforcement is provided to discontinue or
eliminate the occurrences of these activities. In this case, Mr. Henderson is
using weights (reinforcement) to eliminate Elijah’s hand flapping activity.
