Three studies of multiply handicapped blind students enrolled in a special class located in a residential school for visually handicapped children are reported. The application of behavior modification techniques was designed to help the students: a) decrease bickering comments and acquire positive social comments; b) increase independent seat work responses including braille word writing, placement of pegs in a peg board, and placement of cubes in a cubarithm, and c) learn a mobility skill. In each case the subjects were successful in changing responses in their behavioral repertoire when a behavior modification program was implemented.
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