Abstract
The effectiveness of differential reinforcement of incompatible behaviour (DRI) as a technique for reducing stereotyped behaviour was investigated in a study of two young men and two teenage boys with mental handicaps who showed high rates of stereotyped behaviour. A single‐subject ABA‐design was used to compare the effectiveness of DRI with that of the differential reinforcement of other behaviour (DRO). DRI reduced stereotyped behaviour to near zero levels for all the people studied, whereas DRO produced such a reduction in only one person, the one with the highest level of functioning. No generalisation across settings occurred. The implication of these findings is that DRI may prove to be a valuable reductive procedure, especially with people with severe or profound mental handicaps.
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