Diagnosis and Treatment of a Case of Hysterical Aphonia in a Thirteen Year Old Girl

Bangs, Jack L.; Freidinger, A.

doi:10.1044/jshd.1404.312

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“…tingencies have been shown to be effective, for example, in controlling disfluencies (Flanagan, Goldiamond, and Azrin, 1958;Goldiamond, 1965;Halvorson, 1971;Kerr, Meyerson, and Michael, 1965;Pineda, Barlow, and Turner, 1971), inappropriate or unintelligible vocalizations (McReynolds, 1969), pitch (Cross and Lane, 1962), duration (Lane, 1964;Picaizen, Berges, Baronofsky, Nichols, and Karen, 1969), and loudness (Bangs and Freidinger, 1949;Bijou and Baer, 1966;Black, 1951;Norman and Broman, 1970;Walton and Black, 1959).…”

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The Modification and Generalization of Voice Loudness in a Fifteen‐year‐old Retarded Girl1

Jackson

Wallace

1974

J of App Behav Analysis

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A fifteen-year-old severely disturbed girl was treated for aphonia. Because of the extent of her withdrawal, the subject was conditioned in a laboratory setting and received tokens for speaking loudly enough to operate a voice-operated relay. Conditioning at first consisted of saying 100 monosyllabic words, with the possibility of reinforcement on each word. Later, the subject was required to say a polysyllabic word, and finally, five or six words per token. The subject was shaped to speak with normal loudness in the laboratory, and generalization to a reading situation in the laboratory was measured and observed to occur, at first for a few minutes, and later for a longer period. Generalization to a reading situation in the classroom did not occur, but the subject's voice loudness also increased in the classroom when several new reinforcement contingencies were put into effect there.

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