Response Blocking
What is Response Blocking?
Response blocking is a positive punishment technique that is used to prevent a child from emitting problem behavior. According to Cooper, Heron, and Heward (2007), Response blocking is "a procedure in which the therapist physically intervenes as soon as the learning begins to emit a problem behavior to prevent completion of the target behavior." It is highly important to remember that during a response blocking procedure, the therapist should use the least amount of physical contact and restraint as possible.
When to use Response Blocking:
Our treatment methods here at [organization name] are designed to use the least amount of physical contact and restraint as possible. However, we have included response blocking as a technique to be used in cases in which the problem behavior has become danger to the child or to other children in the center. Behaviors that are potential examples in which using response blocking is appropriate include:
What Response Blocking looks like:
The following video shows an example of response blocking. It is important to see that along with blocking the response the individual is also being redirected towards an activity that is different from the activity that caused the appearance of the challenging behavior. Also the least amount of physical contact and restriction is used to block the individual from emitting the problem behavior.
Response blocking is a positive punishment technique that is used to prevent a child from emitting problem behavior. According to Cooper, Heron, and Heward (2007), Response blocking is "a procedure in which the therapist physically intervenes as soon as the learning begins to emit a problem behavior to prevent completion of the target behavior." It is highly important to remember that during a response blocking procedure, the therapist should use the least amount of physical contact and restraint as possible.
When to use Response Blocking:
Our treatment methods here at [organization name] are designed to use the least amount of physical contact and restraint as possible. However, we have included response blocking as a technique to be used in cases in which the problem behavior has become danger to the child or to other children in the center. Behaviors that are potential examples in which using response blocking is appropriate include:
- Self-injurious behaviors such as head banging, hitting oneself, scratching oneself, etc
- Throwing hard items in the vicinity of and/or in the direction of other children
- Hitting, kicking, and/or screaming at other children
What Response Blocking looks like:
The following video shows an example of response blocking. It is important to see that along with blocking the response the individual is also being redirected towards an activity that is different from the activity that caused the appearance of the challenging behavior. Also the least amount of physical contact and restriction is used to block the individual from emitting the problem behavior.
Additional Information:
This first link describes Response Blocking in conjunction with Redirection and the usefulness of pairing the two together. This word document is entitled Autism in the Workplace and was obtained from the following website:
www.gvsu.edu/.../autism_in_the_workplace_response_interruption_ ...
The second link is for an article that describes a response blocking procedure that was used with two individuals with severe mental retardation where hand mouthing was determined to be a self-stimulatory behavior that interfered with the individuals' capacity to learn.
This first link describes Response Blocking in conjunction with Redirection and the usefulness of pairing the two together. This word document is entitled Autism in the Workplace and was obtained from the following website:
www.gvsu.edu/.../autism_in_the_workplace_response_interruption_ ...
The second link is for an article that describes a response blocking procedure that was used with two individuals with severe mental retardation where hand mouthing was determined to be a self-stimulatory behavior that interfered with the individuals' capacity to learn.
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