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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Validation of the Contextual Assessment Inventory for Problem Behavior
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Carr, Edward G.; Ladd, Mara V.; Schulte, Christine F. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2008
Problem behavior is a major barrier to successful community integration for people with developmental disabilities. Recently, there has been increased interest in identifying contextual factors involving setting events and discriminative stimuli that impact the display of problem behavior. The authors previously developed the "Contextual…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Intervention, Developmental Disabilities, Predictive Validity
The Expanding Vision of Positive Behavior Support: Research Perspectives on Happiness, Helpfulness, Hopefulness
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Carr, Edward G.; Horner, Robert H. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2007
Positive behavior support (PBS) represents an empirically driven concern with quality of life (QOL), support through systems change, and linkage to multiple behavioral, social, and biomedical sciences. The major impediments to QOL are problem behavior, skill deficits, and dysfunctional systems. A model for addressing dysfunctional systems is…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Behavior Modification, Psychological Patterns, Helping Relationship
Effects of Video Modeling Alone and with Self-Management on Compliment-Giving Behaviors of Children with High-Functioning ASD
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Apple, Allison Lowy; Billingsley, Felix; Schwartz, Ilene S.; Carr, Edward G. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2005
Children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASD) typically exhibit a lack of social reciprocity skills. They often struggle to maintain conversations, especially with topics of little or no interest to them, and to create meaningful relationships. By giving compliments to others, children with ASD have a means by which to show…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Autism, Positive Reinforcement, Self Control
Quality of Rapport as a Setting Event for Problem Behavior: Assessment and Intervention
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McLaughlin, Darlene Magito; Carr, Edward G. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2005
Relationship quality (rapport) between people with developmental disabilities and their caregivers has long been suggested as an important variable influencing the likelihood of problem behavior. However, to date, the association between rapport and problem behavior has not been systematically investigated. The authors evaluated a multimethod…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Intervention, Caregivers, Developmental Disabilities
Structural Analysis and Intervention in a School Setting: Effects on Problem Behavior for a Student with an Emotional/Behavioral Disorder
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Stichter, Janine P.; Sasso, Gary M.; Jolivette, Kristine; Carr, Edward G. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2004
The current investigation was designed to identify--through the use of a structural analysis procedure--the most salient antecedent variables related to problem behavior. More specifically, the authors investigated the use of structural analysis procedures to identify antecedent variables within a general education setting that supported the…
Descriptors: Intervention, General Education, Behavior Problems, Emotional Problems
A Contextual Assessment Inventory for Problem Behavior: Initial Development
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McAtee, Michelle; Carr, Edward G.; Schulte, Christine; Dunlap, Glen – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2004
Problem behavior is a primary barrier to successful community inclusion for people with developmental disabilities and therefore a major priority for intervention efforts. Recently, researchers and clinicians have begun to focus on the systematic assessment of a broad range of contextual variables that purportedly affect problem behavior. In the…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities, Interrater Reliability, Behavior Problems