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Reliability of Assigning Functions to Behaviours of People with Intellectual Disability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2014

B. Pennington  and
R.D. Tustin
B. Pennington*
Affiliation:
Minda Inc.
R.D. Tustin
Affiliation:
Minda Inc.
*
Minda Inc., PO Box 5, Brighton SA 5048, Australia or Don Tustin, PO Box 427, Glenelg SA 5045, Australia
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Abstract

The study examined the reliability with which experienced psychologists assigned functions to behaviours of people with intellectual disability using information about sets of problem behaviours and sets of antecedent situations. The study found good consistency in assigning functions, showing that reliable judgments about functions of behaviours can be made even when information is not available about consequences of the behaviours. The approach enabled reliable distinctions to be made between functions that have not previously been examined in the literature.

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Behaviour Change , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , December 1995 , pp. 201 - 208
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1995

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