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Rapid Eating in the Retarded

Reduction by Nonaversive Procedures

Judith E. Favell

Western Carolina Center, Morganton, North Carolina

James F. McGimsey

Western Carolina Center, Morganton, North Carolina

Michael L. Jones

University of Kansas

Excessively rapid eating is a prevalent and serious, yet neglected problem with the severely and profoundly retarded. In the present study, four profoundly retarded rapid eaters were taught to spoon dip at normal rates by a nonaversive treatment package which included two major components: praise and food reinforcement for successively longer independent pauses between bites (up to five seconds), and steadily diminishing physical prompts for pausing when subjects attempted to eat rapidly. A multiple baseline experimental analysis documented that this treatment package was responsible for a reduction in rate from an average of 10.5 bites per 30 seconds during baseline to three bites per 30 seconds following treatment. This improvement persisted under a maintenance regime conducted by regular cottage staff in which one-to-one attention was gradually withdrawn, subjects were intermittently reinforced for pausing, and prompts for pausing were successfully eliminated.

Behavior Modification, Vol. 4, No. 4, 481-492 (1980)
DOI: 10.1177/014544558044004
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