The purpose of this study was to introduce a cognitive, nonintrusive method of controlling head-rocking behavior in an 11-year-old blind subject in an integrated placement. The intervention involved having the subject place his hand on his cheek or chin when prompted that he was rocking his head. A multiple-baseline design across four settings, both instructional and social, was employed to evaluate the effects of the procedure. The subject demonstrated significant decreases in head rocking during intervention, as well as generalization during follow-up, when no intervention was employed.
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