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Haney SD, Ibañez VF, Kirkwood CA, Piazza CC. An evaluation of negative reinforcement to increase self-feeding and self-drinking for children with feeding disorders. J Appl Behav Anal 2023; 56:757-776. [PMID: 37522307 DOI: 10.1002/jaba.1013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Accepted: 07/02/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023]
Abstract
Self-feeding with utensils represents an important step in a child's progression toward age-typical eating and emerges in the absence of intervention for most children. In contrast, children with feeding disorders may lack the skill or motivation to self-feed, which impedes progress toward age-typical eating. In the current study, experimenters used a multielement design to evaluate negative reinforcement in the form of meal termination to transition six participants with a feeding disorder from caregiver-fed to self-fed bites and drinks. Caregivers conducted meals in which they fed the participant or prompted them to self-feed. During self-fed meal-termination sessions, participants had the opportunity to end the meal contingent on self-feeding the presented bite(s) or drink(s). Self-feeding increased during meal-termination sessions for all participants. The experimenters discuss these results relative to their potential to inform interventions for children with feeding disorders that progress the child toward age-typical eating.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sarah D Haney
- Department of Behavioral Psychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Children's Specialized Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
- Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, USA
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Haney SD, Greer BD, Mitteer DR, Randall KR. Relapse during the treatment of pediatric feeding disorders. J Appl Behav Anal 2022; 55:704-726. [PMID: 35318658 PMCID: PMC10091143 DOI: 10.1002/jaba.913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Revised: 07/16/2021] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Resurgence and renewal are treatment-relapse phenomena in which previously extinguished behavior returns after the conditions for an alternative response worsen or the context changes, respectively. Recently, researchers have evaluated the prevalence of resurgence and renewal when treating destructive behavior with functional communication training. However, resurgence of inappropriate mealtime behavior has yet to be evaluated; perhaps because treatments involve qualitatively different resurgence opportunities (e.g., increased bite-presentation rate). We evaluated the prevalence of resurgence and renewal of inappropriate mealtime behavior across 22 and 25 applications of extinction-based treatments, respectively. Resurgence occurred in 41% (9/22) of applications, most often following presentation-rate increases. Renewal occurred in 52% (13/25) of applications, most often following feeder changes from therapist to caregiver. We discuss these findings in terms of their ability to inform relapse-mitigation strategies for resurgence and renewal of inappropriate mealtime behavior.
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- Children's Specialized Hospital-Rutgers University Center for Autism Research, Education, and Services (CSH-RUCARES).,Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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- Children's Specialized Hospital-Rutgers University Center for Autism Research, Education, and Services (CSH-RUCARES).,Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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Tereshko L, Leaf JB, Weiss MJ, Rich A, Pistorino M. A systematic literature review of antecedent and reinforcement‐based behavioral feeding interventions without the implementation of escape extinction. BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/bin.1769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Lisa Tereshko
- Institute for Applied Behavioral Science Endicott College Beverly Massachusetts USA
- Beacon ABA Services, Inc Milford Massachusetts USA
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- Institute for Applied Behavioral Science Endicott College Beverly Massachusetts USA
- Autism Partnership Foundation Seal Beach California USA
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- Institute for Applied Behavioral Science Endicott College Beverly Massachusetts USA
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- Beacon ABA Services, Inc Milford Massachusetts USA
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Rubio EK, Pichardo D, Borrero CS. Using backward chaining and a physical guidance delay to teach self-feeding. BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/bin.1504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Baltimore MD USA
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Peterson KM, Volkert VM, Milnes SM. Evaluation of Practice Trials to Increase Self-Drinking in a Child with a Feeding Disorder. Behav Anal Pract 2017. [PMID: 28630821 DOI: 10.1007/s40617-016-0147-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Self-drinking is an important skill for children to acquire as they transition from infancy to early childhood; however, the literature is limited (e.g., Collins, Gast, Wolery, Holcombe, & Leatherby, 1991; Peterson, Volkert, & Zeleny, 2015). We manipulated the consequences associated with self-drinking relative to those associated with being fed along the dimension of response effort. Results demonstrated that self-drinking increased when the child could either choose to self-feed one drink or be fed one drink and 5 practice trials with an empty cup.
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- Kathryn M Peterson
- University of Nebraska Medical Center's, Munroe-Meyer Institute, Omaha, USA
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- University of Nebraska Medical Center's, Munroe-Meyer Institute, Omaha, USA.,Marcus Autism Center and Emory University School of Medicine, 1920 Briarcliff Road, Atlanta, GA 30329 USA
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- University of Nebraska Medical Center's, Munroe-Meyer Institute, Omaha, USA
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Gosa MM, Carden HT, Jacks CC, Threadgill AY, Sidlovsky TC. Evidence to support treatment options for children with swallowing and feeding disorders: A systematic review. J Pediatr Rehabil Med 2017; 10:107-136. [PMID: 28582883 DOI: 10.3233/prm-170436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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PURPOSE A rise in pediatric patients with swallowing and feeding problems has resulted in increased interest in multidisciplinary treatments to address these issues. This evidence based systematic review (EBSR) examined the published evidence for the use of common strategies used by clinicians across disciplines to treat pediatric swallowing and feeding problems. METHODS A systematic search of 10 electronic databases was completed to identify relevant, peer reviewed literature published in English prior to December 2015 reporting original data that addressed at least one of the five identified clinical questions. RESULTS Sixty-one studies of varying methodological quality were included. The majority of the included studies (60/61) focused on the use of behavioral therapies to remediate swallowing and feeding disorders in children and reported mixed findings across all of the targeted outcomes. CONCLUSION There is insufficient quantity of evidence to determine the effects of oral motor, sensory, and pharmaceutical therapies on functional feeding outcomes in pediatric populations. A larger body of phase 1 evidence is available that establishes the efficacy of behavioral strategies to treat some swallowing and feeding difficulties in small cohort and single subject studies. This analysis identified limited high quality (phase 4) research articles that establish the efficacy and benefit of joint nutrition and behavior intervention programs and systematic desensitization and operant conditioning behavioral therapy approaches to improve functional feeding and swallowing outcomes in children.
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- Memorie M Gosa
- The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
- Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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Voulgarakis H, Forte S. Escape Extinction and Negative Reinforcement in the Treatment of Pediatric Feeding Disorders: a Single Case Analysis. Behav Anal Pract 2016; 8:212-214. [PMID: 27703921 DOI: 10.1007/s40617-015-0086-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Pediatric feeding disorders are common among children with developmental disabilities and can have detrimental effects on growth and development. An escape extinction and negative reinforcement-based approach to treating food refusal was examined in a child with cerebral palsy. A changing criterion treatment design was implemented, which allowed the child to exit the treatment area contingent upon the acceptance and ingestion of a pre-determined number of bites. Food acceptance ranged from one to three bites at baseline and exceeded the pre-set criteria for mastery, at 14 bites during the final intervention phase.The study will contribute to the current literature on negative reinforcement procedures used in the treatment of pediatric feeding problems.The study will contribute to increasing the availability of literature pertaining to pediatric feeding problems among children with complex disabilities such as cerebral palsy.The intervention is brief with components to the treatment package which increases utility and ease of implementation.The study demonstrates the applicability of changing criterion design within clinical settings.
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- Harry Voulgarakis
- Milford, CT USA ; grid.298695.90000000405272734School of Psychology, Fielding Graduate University, 2020 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA USA
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- Milford, CT USA ; Endicott College & The Center for Children with Special Needs, 230 Main Street, Glastonbury, CT USA
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Peterson KM, Piazza CC, Volkert VM. A comparison of a modified sequential oral sensory approach to an applied behavior-analytic approach in the treatment of food selectivity in children with autism spectrum disorder. J Appl Behav Anal 2016; 49:485-511. [PMID: 27449267 DOI: 10.1002/jaba.332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2014] [Accepted: 06/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Treatments of pediatric feeding disorders based on applied behavior analysis (ABA) have the most empirical support in the research literature (Volkert & Piazza, 2012); however, professionals often recommend, and caregivers often use, treatments that have limited empirical support. In the current investigation, we compared a modified sequential oral sensory approach (M-SOS; Benson, Parke, Gannon, & Muñoz, 2013) to an ABA approach for the treatment of the food selectivity of 6 children with autism. We randomly assigned 3 children to ABA and 3 children to M-SOS and compared the effects of treatment in a multiple baseline design across novel, healthy target foods. We used a multielement design to assess treatment generalization. Consumption of target foods increased for children who received ABA, but not for children who received M-SOS. We subsequently implemented ABA with the children for whom M-SOS was not effective and observed a potential treatment generalization effect during ABA when M-SOS preceded ABA.
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Volkert VM, Piazza CC, Ray-Price R. Further Manipulations in Response Effort or Magnitude of an Aversive Consequence to Increase Self-Feeding in Children with Feeding Disorders. Behav Anal Pract 2016; 9:103-13. [PMID: 27606249 PMCID: PMC4893039 DOI: 10.1007/s40617-016-0124-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Although some children with feeding disorders may have the necessary skills to feed themselves, they may lack motivation to self-feed solids and liquids. Rivas, Piazza, Roane, Volkert, Stewart, Kadey, and Groff (Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 47, 1-14, 2014) and Vaz, Volkert, and Piazza (Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 44, 915-920, 2011) successfully increased self-feeding for children who lacked motivation to self-feed by manipulating either the quantity or the quantity and quality of bites that the therapist fed the child if he or she did not self-feed. In the current investigation, we present three case examples to illustrate some challenges we faced when using these procedures outlined in the aforementioned studies and how we addressed these challenges.
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Affiliation(s)
- Valerie M. Volkert
- Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE USA
- Marcus Autism Center and Emory University School of Medicine, Altanta, GA USA
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- Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE USA
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- Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE USA
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Peterson KM, Volkert VM, Zeleny JR. Increasing self-drinking for children with feeding disorders. J Appl Behav Anal 2015; 48:436-41. [DOI: 10.1002/jaba.210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2014] [Accepted: 12/23/2014] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- University of Nebraska Medical Center's Munroe-meyer Institute
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Rubio EK, Borrero CSW, Taylor T. Use of a Side Deposit to Increase Consumption in Children with Food Refusal. BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/bin.1404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- School of Medicine; Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore MD USA
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Rivas KM, Piazza CC, Roane HS, Volkert VM, Stewart V, Kadey HJ, Groff RA. Analysis of self-feeding in children with feeding disorders. J Appl Behav Anal 2014; 47:710-22. [DOI: 10.1002/jaba.170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2011] [Accepted: 05/05/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Kristi M. Rivas
- University of Nebraska Medical Center's Munroe-Meyer Institute
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- University of Nebraska Medical Center's Munroe-Meyer Institute
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Gonzalez ML, Taylor T, Borrero CSW, Sangkavasi E. AN INDIVIDUALIZED LEVELS SYSTEM TO INCREASE INDEPENDENT MEALTIME BEHAVIOR IN CHILDREN WITH FOOD REFUSAL. BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/bin.1358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
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- Department of Behavioral Psychology; Kennedy Krieger Institute; 707 N. Broadway; Baltimore; MD 21205; USA
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- Department of Behavioral Psychology; Kennedy Krieger Institute; 707 N. Broadway; Baltimore; MD 21205; USA
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