Contingent feedback for training children to propel their wheelchairs.
Three multiply handicapped children were taught self-movement of their wheelchairs. This behavior was established through the use of contingent reinforcement within 30-minute therapy sessions. When a high number of self-movement responses were obtained, the reinforcement was systematically withdrawn to allow the responses to come under the control of the natural environmental consequences.
D000293:Adolescent; D001264:Athetosis / Q000534:rehabilitation; D002648:Child; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000534:rehabilitation; D008297:Male; D009128:Muscle Spasticity / Q000534:rehabilitation; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000534:rehabilitation; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012057:Reinforcement, Verbal; D014910:Wheelchairs