SHAPING SELF‐INITIATED TOILETING IN INFANTS | Zendy

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SHAPING SELF‐INITIATED TOILETING IN INFANTS

Author(s) -

Smeets Paul M.,

Lancioni Giulio E.,

Ball Thomas S.,

Oltva Doretta S.

Publication year - 1985

Publication title -

journal of applied behavior analysis

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1

H-Index - 76

eISSN - 1938-3703

pISSN - 0021-8855

DOI - 10.1901/jaba.1985.18-303

Subject(s) - toileting , psychology , developmental psychology , activities of daily living , psychiatry

We evaluated a method for training infants to cue their mothers on the need to eliminate. The program consisted of three phases: Phase I was directed at establishing a dose temporal relationship between body signals (straining) and subsequent defecations on the potty; Phase II was designed to establish a relationship between prompted and unprompted potty reaching/grabbing responses and eliminations (defecations and urinations) on the potty; and Phase III served to establish unprompted potty reaching/grabbing responses as reliable precursors of eliminations. Four babies, between 3.1 and 6.6 months old, all completed the training before age 1 year, with no negative side effects.

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