ASSESSING CHILDHOOD NONCOMPLIANCE - SUBTLE DIFFERENCES IN ONE-STEP COMMANDS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON RESPONSE TOPOGRAPHY

Those researching and assessing child noncompliance have generally fai led to use commands that are standard and equivalent. Commands present ed in research have generally been rationaly-derived and situation spe cific. As a result, it is not clear what impact the commands alone may be having on increasing compliance. This study compares compliance ra tes to two sets of commands derived from the existing literature (easy motor commands and difficult motor commands). The results show a clea r difference in the natural rates of compliance to different types of one-step commands. This suggests that even subtle differences in one-s tep commands can have a significant impact on response topography.