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Behavior Analysis in Special Education

White Rabbit or White Elephant?

C. Michael Nelson

C. Michael Neloson is professor of special education at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. He received his EdD at the University of Kansas in 1969. His area of interest is behavior disorders and teaching strategies based on applied behavior analysis. He currently is involoved in a federal project that is attempting to improve special education service to handicapped youth.

Lewis Polsgrave

Lewis Polsgrove earned his EdD at the University of Kentucky in 1974, and is now associate professor of special education at Indiana University, where he is a teacher educator and researcheer in learning disabilities and behavior disorders. He is presently conducting research in using computer assisted instruction to teach learning strategies to handicapped.

The extensive and multi-faceted contributions of behavior analysis to the field of special education have been documented in numerous research studies and review articles. However, this literature is widely scattered and comes from different orientations within the general discipline of behavior analysis. These circumstances have contributed to some confusion on the part of those persons who only sample limited facets of the behavior analysis literature, and have resulted in criticisms that behavioral technology is narrow in scope. The present review attempts to organize the diverse data base pertaining to behavior analysis, and offers support for the contention that while the impact of behavioral technology on special education research and practice has been considerable, its potential has yet to be fully realized.

Remedial and Special Education, Vol. 5, No. 4, 6-15 (1984)
DOI: 10.1177/074193258400500404
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