Teaching a Mother to Attend Differentially to Her Mentally Handicapped Child's Behaviour
- 1 April 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Behavioural Psychotherapy
- Vol. 16 (2) , 122-132
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0141347300012945
Abstract
A mother was taught to modify her interactional style with her language-delayed son, using direct feedback via a bug-in-the-ear and video recordings. Results showed that attending to and praising the child's behaviours and imitating vocalisations increased, while commands, questions and reprimands decreased. Methods of dealing with tantrums were taught but no occasion arose during the teaching for putting them into practice. Follow-up two years later showed Stephen making good progress, while neither his mother nor his school had needed any further outside help for him.Keywords
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