ERIC Number: EJ1163086
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Publication Date: 2017-Oct
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Establishing Auditory-Tactile-Visual Equivalence Classes in Children with Autism and Developmental Delays
Mullen, Stuart; Dixon, Mark R.; Belisle, Jordan; Stanley, Caleb
Analysis of Verbal Behavior, v33 n2 p283-289 Oct 2017
The current study sought to evaluate the efficacy of a stimulus equivalence training procedure in establishing auditory-tactile-visual stimulus classes with 2 children with autism and developmental delays. Participants were exposed to vocal-tactile (A-B) and tactile-picture (B-C) conditional discrimination training and were tested for the emergence of vocal-picture (A-C) and picture-vocal (C-A) responses. The results demonstrated that, following training, both participants responded successfully on both the training stimulus arrangements and the test probes that were never trained, illustrating emergence of cross-modal transitive and equivalence relations.
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Tactual Perception, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Pictorial Stimuli, Auditory Perception, Auditory Discrimination, Verbal Communication, Training, Program Effectiveness
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Language: English
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