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. 1997 Spring;30(1):165–167. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1997.30-165

Functional analysis of episodic self-injury correlated with recurrent otitis media.

M F O'Reilly 1
PMCID: PMC1284030  PMID: 9103992

Abstract

A functional analysis examined the consequences that maintained episodic self-injury and the relationship between those consequences and otitis media for a child with moderate developmental disabilities. Results indicated that self-injury occurred only during periods of otitis media. Otitis media may have served as an establishing operation related to escape from ambient noise.

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