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50 Years of ERIC
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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Dunlap, Glen; Horner, Robert H., Ed. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2006
In the past two decades, positive behavior support (PBS) has emerged from applied behavior analysis (ABA) as a newly fashioned approach to problems of behavioral adaptation. ABA was established in the 1960s as a science in which learning principles are systematically applied to produce socially important changes in behavior, whereas PBS was…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Intellectual Disciplines, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Intervention
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Strain, Phillip S.; Joseph, Gail E. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2004
The field of early intervention has long been involved in a heated debate between proponents of behavioral teaching strategies and professionals against it. This debate has become more focused and clearly more relevant to the quality of services afforded to young children with special needs because more of these youngsters are being served in…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Young Children, Positive Reinforcement, Special Needs Students