Hostname: page-component-7dd5485656-glrdx Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-10-30T17:53:06.710Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

An Analysis of the Progressive Development of Vocal Responses in a Mute Schizophrenic Patient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Douglas Fraser ,
James Anderson  and
Joanne Grime
Douglas Fraser
Affiliation:
Senior Clinical Psychologist
James Anderson
Affiliation:
Senior Enrolled Nurse Clinical Psychologist
Joanne Grime
Affiliation:
Tayside Area Clinical Psychology Department, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, Dundee DD2 5NF
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The progressive development of vocal responses in a 72-year-old male schizophrenic patient with a history of 48 years of complete mutism is described. The emergence of recognizable words and phrases is closely linked to the application of a range of behaviour modification procedures. The programming of generalization of treatment effects across individuals and across settings is also described.

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 2 - 12
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1981

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Baker, R. (1971). The use of operant conditioning to reinstate speech in mute schizophrenics. Behaviour Research and Therapy 9, 329–336.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Barton, E. S. (1975). The problem of generalisation in the operant conditioning of social speech in the severely subnormal. British journal of Psychiatry 127, 376–385.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Cliffe, M. J. (1974). Reinstatement of speech in mute schizophrenics by operant conditioning. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 50, 577–585.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hewlett, J. M. (1965). Teaching speech to an autistic child through operant conditioning. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 35, 927–936.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Holland, A. I. and Harris, A. B. (1968). Aphasia and rehabilitation using programmed instructions: an intensive case history. In Operant Procedures in Remedial Speech and Language Training. Sloane, H. M. and Macauley, B. D. (Eds), Boston: Houghton Mifflin.Google Scholar
Isaacs, E., Thomas, J. and Goldiamond, I. (1960). Application of operant conditioning to reinstate verbal behaviour in psychotics. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 25, 8–12.Google Scholar
Liberman, R. P. (1972). Reinforcement of social interaction in a group of chronic mental patients. In Advances in Behavioural Therapy, Rubin, R. P., et al. (Eds), New York: Academic Press.Google Scholar
Lovaas, O. I. et al. (1966). Acquistion of imitative speech by schizophrenic children. Science 151, 705–707.Google Scholar
Presly, A. S. et al. (1976). The token economy in the National Health Service: possibilities and limitations. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavic 53, 25–270.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Risley, T. and Wolf, M. (1967). Establishing functional speech in echolalic children. Behaviour Research and Therapy 5, 73–88.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sherman, J. A. (1965). Use of reinforcers and imitation to reinstate verbal behaviour in mute psychotics. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 70, 155–164.Google Scholar
Straughan, J. H., Potter, W. R. and Hamilton, S. J. (1965). The behavioural treatment of an elective mute. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 6, 125–130.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Thomson, N., Fraser, D. and McDougall, A. (1974). The reinstatement of speech in near mute chronic schizophrenics by instructions, imitative prompts and reinforcement. journal of Behavioural Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 5, 83–89.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Walker, H. M. and Buckley, N. K. (1972). Programming generalisation and maintenance of treatment effects across time and across settings. Journal of Applied Behaviour Analysis 5, 209–224.Google Scholar
Submit a response

Comments

No Comments have been published for this article.