The Effectiveness of Program Based on Reinforcement, Modeling, and Exclusion to Reduce Hand Flapping and Head Banging Behavior Among Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Children

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the outcome of the Effectiveness of program based on Reinforcement, Modeling, and Exclusion to Reduce hand flapping and head banging Behavior Among Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Children, the sample of the study consisted of (ASD) Children in Mafraq province and it has been selected intentionality and distributed randomly into two groups, the controlled group and the experimental group. Each of them consisted of 8 children aged between 9 to 10 years old.  By using the statistical analysis Mann Whitney u and Chi-square tests, The results of the study showed the effectiveness of (reinforcement, modeling, and exclusion) to reduce of hand  flapping and head banging  behavior with ASD children .The comparison between the procedures of behavior modification to reduce hand  flapping and head banging  behavior showed, the effectiveness of reinforcement compared to modeling and exclusion .There is no difference between modeling and exclusion in the reduction of  hand  flapping and head banging  behavior in ASD children . The study recommended of possibility to implement the program to reduce the other behaviors in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children.

Keywords: Reinforcement, Modeling, and Exclusion, hand flapping and head banging behavior, autism spectrum disorder (ASD)