ABSTRACT
This paper describes the initiation and evaluation of a behavioral program designed to increase command following and to decrease out-of-seat behavior in three emotionally disturbed pre-school children. The children were two girls and a boy, each 4 years of age, attending a private facility for retarded children, but the children in this study were of average intelligence. The program succeeded in increasing command following to 95% compliance, and in reducing out-of-seat behavior to 1.5 times per 15 minute session. The children were then transferred to a public school and the behaviors targeted deteriorated to only slightly better than initial base rate. Some reasons for regression in behavior of the children based upon observational data are presented and possible ways of correcting the problems are posited.
