Early development of self-injurious behavior: an empirical study.
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) in American Journal on Mental Retardation
Abstract
The early development of SIB in young children with developmental disabilities was examined by tracking over an 18-month period 16 school-age children who had recently started to show early SIB. Naturalistic observations were conducted in each child's classroom every 3 months, and the association between early SIB and environmental events was examined. Results showed that for the 4 children whose early SIB had escalated over this period, there was a significant association between early SIB and low levels of social contact across observation points, supporting models of the development of SIB. This association might be considered as a risk marker for the exacerbation of SIB. Implications of this finding for targeting early interventions for SIB are discussed.Keywords
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