Operant approaches to group therapy in a school for handicapped children.
In order to determine the effectiveness of operant approaches to group therapy with children with cerebral palsy or mental retardation, four boys aged between 4 years 10 months and 5 years 7 months were given a total of 23 twice-weekly 30-minute treatment sessions. After treatment there was considerably improvement in the children's attention-to-tasks and they showed some increase in social interactions, though to a lesser degree. Teacher ratings also showed some improvement in classroom behavior.
D000367:Age Factors; D001288:Attention; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000534:rehabilitation; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000534:rehabilitation; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology