Positive practice overcorrection required some physical contact in this study placing this punishment procedure in the category with most restrictive. In this study the results indicated that positive practice overcorrection was effective in increasing activity engagement and decreasing stereotyping behaviors in 2 of the 3 participants in the study. Positive practice overcorrection was successful in decreasing stereotyping but had no effect on activity …show more content…
Time-out means that the participant is not completely removed physically from the time-in setting (Cooper et al., 2007, p. 358). Donaldson, Vollmer, Yakich, and Van Camp (2013) evaluated the effects of time-out on increasing compliance and reducing problem behaviors in six preschool aged children in home and on the school playground (Donaldson et al., 2013, p.371). Time-out nonexclusion is a least restrictive punishment procedure. This procedure is appropriate for playground and home settings because the participants were not physically removed from the settings. The results in this study indicate that time-out did in fact reduce problem behaviors across participants but compliance did not increase using time-out punishment procedure across participants (Donaldson et al., 2013, p.