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FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF EPISODIC SELF‐INJURY CORRELATED WITH RECURRENT OTITIS MEDIA
Author(s) -
O'Reilly Mark F.
Publication year - 1997
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.1997.30-165
Subject(s) - otitis , psychology , audiology , developmental psychology , medicine , surgery
A functional analysis examined the consequences that maintained episodic self‐injury and the relationship between those consequences and otitis media for a child with moderate developmental disabilities. Results indicated that self‐injury occurred only during periods of otitis media. Otitis media may have served as an establishing operation related to escape from ambient noise.