TEACHING CHILDREN WITH AUTISM TO RESPOND TO AND INITIATE BIDS FOR JOINT ATTENTION

A multiple baseline design across 3 children with autism was used to assess the effects of prompting and social reinforcement to teach participants to respond to an adult's bid for joint attention and to initiate bids for joint attention. Participants were taught to respond to an adult's b...

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Published in:Journal of applied behavior analysis 2008, Vol.41 (3), p.377-391
Main Authors: Taylor, Bridget A., Hoch, Hannah
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
Age
Attention
Autism
Autistic children
Autistic Disorder - psychology
Behavior modification
Bids
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child clinical studies
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Communication
Control Groups
Developmental disorders
Eye contact
Humans
Infantile autism
Interpersonal Competence
Interpersonal Relations
joint attention
Language Acquisition
Language Skills
Measurement
Medical sciences
Positive reinforcement
Preschool children
Prompting
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
R&D
Reinforcement (Psychology)
Research & development
School buildings
Social Behavior
Social interaction
Social Reinforcement
social skills
Studies
Teaching
Teaching - methods
teaching language
Verbal Learning
Young Children
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Summary:A multiple baseline design across 3 children with autism was used to assess the effects of prompting and social reinforcement to teach participants to respond to an adult's bid for joint attention and to initiate bids for joint attention. Participants were taught to respond to an adult's bid for joint attention by looking in the direction of an object at which the adult pointed, by making a comment about the object, and by looking back at the adult. Additional training and reinforcement were needed to teach the participants to initiate bids for joint attention. Findings are discussed in terms of the social relevance of teaching children with autism to respond to and initiate bids for joint attention.
ISSN:0021-8855
1938-3703
DOI:10.1901/jaba.2008.41-377