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[quote=Anonymous]In college I worked in a group homes for people with developmental disabilities, and teaching toothbrushing often involved a process designed by a behavioral psychologist in which every step was broken down and steps taught one at a time with a lot of reinforcement and hand over hand. I'm guessing that's what ABA would do. Also, I knew someone whose son had severe (really, really severe) anxiety (not developmental disability but his anxiety was so severe he is on SSI as an adult), he had to be sedated for dental work. That was also the case with some of the group home clients. Once when I took a client to the dentist he explained to me that to mitigate gagging (a common problem) to have the person tip their head forward and drop the lower jaw loosely. I actually have had problems at time gagging when brushing and would do that when it happened. He also recommended electric toothbrushes. [/quote]
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