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Question
A new student was placed in Ms. Preston's resource class. Ms. Preston had very little information about this student. The student exhibited high rates of disruptive behaviors and noncompliance. Ms. Preston didn"t believe in using any formal behavior management systems, but she immediately implemented an exclusionary time-out procedure for the new student. Evaluate Ms. Preston's decision to use exclusionary time-out.a. This was the correct decision.
b. Ms. Preston should have first tried less aversive interventions, including reinforcement-based interventions.
c. Ms. Preston should have first conducted a functional assessment for this student.
d. b and c only
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