Increasing response diversity in children with autism.

نویسندگان

  • Deborah A Napolitano
  • Tristram Smith
  • Jennifer R Zarcone
  • Karen Goodkin
  • David B McAdam
چکیده

Repetitive and invariant behavior is a diagnostic feature of autism. We implemented a lag reinforcement schedule to increase response diversity for 6 participants with autism aged 6 to 10 years, 4 of whom also received prompting plus additional training. These procedures appeared to increase the variety of building-block structures, demonstrating that an intervention that includes differential reinforcement can increase response diversity for children with an autism spectrum disorder.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of applied behavior analysis

دوره 43 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010