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group. There again, gross motor training is given
a good deal of attention, and some patterning on
the Doman-Delacato model is also carried out (see
illustrations). Miss Gray was using a variety of
aids to help the children at her 'out-patient' clinic
at the D T Watson Home: the Peabody Language
kit was found to be very useful, and also some
Montessorri apparatus.
learning theories of pioneers such as Professor
B F Skinner, an architect of programmed
instruction, innovator of such things as a
programmed first course for his psychology
students. Behaviour modification in its general
sense is what parents and teachers have been
trying to do since parents and teachers originally
took up their roles; looked at in the light of
'Some of the schools are becoming interested m
behaviour modification, which is another area of
growing interest in education generally, spreading
out from work originally tried, particularly with
the mildly or severely disturbed child—such as the
autistic child—and now being tried in many
therapeutic and teaching situations. Behaviour
modification techniques have developed out of the
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scientific studies of how behaviour is shaped it
may seem as if sometimes they have been
reinforcing—in other words, making the
occurrence likelier—of the very behaviour they
wanted to eliminate. It is necessary first to study
the behaviour that is being emitted by the child,
in order to see what it is exactly that it is
necessary to eliminate or bring into being, and