Operant Conditioning Techniques for Children With Learning Disabilities
no help, am limited to the material provided by the district, see the school psychologist only about an IQ test or some grave issue, have children whose parents couldn’t care less about academic improvement, and have to cope with all the other endless demands on my time during the school day?&dquo; Criticisms such as these often block the use of operant procedures in the public schools, but there are other reasons as well for the schools’ reluctance to adopt behavioral principles in their programs. Undoubtedly, the main reason many teachers balk at applying operant procedures in the classroom is that often those who have sought to translate procedures for classroom use have used too many terms that are meaningless to the teachers. Terms such