This study concerned a six-year-old migrant girl who had not spoken in school since she enrolled (seven terms), nor prior to that in her pre-school. The treatment consisted of 16 sessions which began with direct immediate rewards alone with the therapist and progressed to indirect rewards and group work in the classroom.
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