Token Economy

Some students with disabilities often exhibit challenging behaviors that interfere with their learning and the learning of others. Which is the case for the subject of this research a 3rd grade male who exhibits disrupted problem behaviors. After observation it was determined that an intervention was to be put in place which was decided to use a Token Economy (TE) which is a widely used, evidence-based intervention that can be used as both a group and individual intervention to reduce unwanted behavior. The Purpose of this single subject, AB design study was to explore if implementation of a TE would result in decreased frequency of unwanted behavior of getting up and playing with toys in the middle of class in a third-grade student from a rural school district in Ohio. Results indicate that the student’s behavior of playing with toys and causing a distraction decreased by 66% by the conclusion of the interventio