TEACHING CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER TO MAND FOR INFORMATION USING "WHICH?"

We examined a procedure consisting of a preference assessment, prompting, contrived conditioned establishing operations, and consequences for correct and incorrect responses for teaching children with autism to mand “which?” We used a modified multiple baseline design across 3 participants. All the...

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Published in:Journal of applied behavior analysis 2012-12, Vol.45 (4), p.865-870
Main Authors: Marion, Carole, Martin, Garry L., Yu, C. T., Buhler, Charissa, Kerr, Danni, Claeys, Amanda
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied Behavior Analysis
Autism
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Autistic children
Behavior
Behavior Modification
Behavior Patterns
Behavior Therapy - methods
Behavior therapy. Cognitive therapy
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child clinical studies
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - psychology
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - therapy
Child, Preschool
Children & youth
Communication Skills
Conditioning
Conditioning, Operant
Developmental disorders
Environment
Feedback (Response)
Generalization
Generalization, Psychological
Humans
Infantile autism
Male
mand for information
Medical sciences
Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
Opportunities
Parents
Prompting
Psychological Patterns
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Research Assistants
Responses
Studies
Teaching
Teaching Methods
Toys
Training
Treatments
Verbal Behavior
verbal operant
Verbal Stimuli
Water
which
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Summary:We examined a procedure consisting of a preference assessment, prompting, contrived conditioned establishing operations, and consequences for correct and incorrect responses for teaching children with autism to mand “which?” We used a modified multiple baseline design across 3 participants. All the children learned to mand “which?” Generalization occurred to the natural environment, to a novel activity, and to a novel container; the results were maintained over time.
ISSN:0021-8855
1938-3703
DOI:10.1901/jaba.2012.45-865