Thomas Millard

TL;DR: Two studies were conducted with children who displayed behavior problems to evaluate the effects of task preference, task demands, and adult attention on child behavior.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the component analysis was useful for identifying variables that affected foodAcceptance in 4 young children.

TL;DR: The choice-making behavior of 5 young children with developmental disabilities who engaged in aberrant behavior was studied within a concurrent operants framework and treatment packages involving choice making via manding were implemented to decrease inappropriate behavior and to increase mands.

TL;DR: For 6 of the 7 children, improved behavior occurred with changes in treatment components, extending previous studies of direct assessment procedures conducted in outpatient clinic settings.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of high probability (high-p) requests on compliance with low-probability responses have received increasing attention in investigations aimed at increasing compliance, and three distinct patterns of responding to low-p requests have been presented in recent literature.