ERIC Number: EJ986520
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Dec
Pages: 22
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Teaching Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder to Mand "Where?"
Marion, Carole; Martin, Garry L.; Yu, C. T.; Buhler, Charissa; Kerr, Danni
Journal of Behavioral Education, v21 n4 p273-294 Dec 2012
A modified multiple-baseline design across participants was used to evaluate a procedure for teaching the mand "Where?" to 3 children with autism. The participants were 3 and 5 years old and were participating in an intensive applied behavior analysis program. The participants were able to mand for items they wanted when the items were not in sight but were unable to ask where an item was located. The procedure consisted of a preference assessment for play activities, contrived conditioned motivating operations (CMO's), prompting the children to mand "Where," and consequences for correct and incorrect responding. Each contrived CMO consisted of an opportunity for the child to mand "Where" while playing with a selected activity, prompting the child to mand, and reinforcing a correct response by answering the question "Where." Two of the participants learned to mand "Where" after training with 1 CMO and the mand generalized to novel contrived situations, activities, and the natural environment and was maintained over time (up to 4-weeks), whereas one participant required training with a second CMO before generalization occurred.
Descriptors: Autism, Play, Prompting, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Young Children, Conditioning, Reinforcement, Responses, Teaching Methods, Generalization, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Communication Skills
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Language: English
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