This article reports the results of two transdisciplinary interventions conducted by an itinerant school nurse. The case studies involved a Prader-Willi syndrome student enrolled in a class for the trainable mentally handicapped (TMH), and a student enrolled in a regular fourth-grade classroom but considered “at- risk” for placement in a behavior disorders (BD) setting. Both behavior change programs were evaluated using single-subject design procedures.
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