Public elementary teachers' perceived effectiveness of behavior management approaches for students with autism

• Main Author: Huang, Erh-Chen
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2003
• Subjects: Autism; Special eduction teachers; Behavior modification; Timeout method; Token economy (Psychology)
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/3040
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study determines the public elementary SPED teachers' perceived effectiveness of behavior management approaches for students with autism. In this study, the behavior management approaches included positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, token economy, modeling, shaping, fading, time-out, extinction, verbal aversive, and physical aversive. The study used the descriptive method of research. It involved 60 public elementary SPED teachers of students with autism enrolled in ten public elementary schools with SPED centers. The research instrument used in this study was adapted from the study of Orande (2002). The findings of the study revealed that verbal aversive is the behavior management approaches manifested by students with autism. The findings also showed that verbal aversive is the most effective behavior management approach in eliminating in appropriate behaviors of students with autism. Further, the findings indicated that physical aversive is the least effective behavior management approach in correcting inappropriate behaviors of students with autism.