Professor-Emeritus Gonul Kircaali-Iftar, one of the leading experts in Applied Behavior Analysis and Special Education in Turkey, is the founder of Anadolu University's prestigious "Research Institute for the Handicapped," the first and only Institute on special education in Turkey. She received her PhD form the University of Toronto in Canada on special education. Her current research interests include providing early intensive behavioral intervention to children with ASD.
From ABA Journal
ABA is based on the principles of behavioral approach and utilizes these
principles to change socially significant behaviors. What does ABA target?
Teaching new behaviors Strengthening existing behaviors Preventing
undesirable behaviors Weakening/extinguishing undesirable behaviors
Maintaining the behavioral changes Generalizing the behavioral changes
Reinforcement is the behavioral consequence which increases the future
likelihood of the behavior that it follows. If a stimulus is added to the
environment in the reinforcement process, this type of reinforcement is
called ‘positive reinforcement'. This stimulus is called ‘reinforcer'
(i.e., ‘reward'). In order to get the expected result the reinforcer should
immediately follow the target behavior, and sh... (more)
Professor-Emeritus Gonul Kircaali-Iftar, one of the leading experts in Applied Behavior Analysis and Special Education in Turkey, is the founder of Anadolu University's prestigious "Research Institute for the Handicapped," the first and only Institute on special education in Turkey. She received her PhD form the University of Toronto in Canada on special education. Her current research interests include providing early intensive behavioral intervention to children with ASD.
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