ERIC Number: EJ1184497
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Publication Date: 2018
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Teaching Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder to Tact Olfactory Stimuli
Dass, Tina K.; Kisamore, April N.; Vladescu, Jason C.; Reeve, Kenneth F.; Reeve, Sharon A.; Taylor-Santa, Catherine
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, v51 n3 p538-552 Sum 2018
Research on tact acquisition by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has often focused on teaching participants to tact visual stimuli. It is important to evaluate procedures for teaching tacts of nonvisual stimuli (e.g., olfactory, tactile). The purpose of the current study was to extend the literature on secondary target instruction and tact training by evaluating the effects of a discrete-trial instruction procedure involving (a) echoic prompts, a constant prompt delay, and error correction for primary targets; (b) inclusion of secondary target stimuli in the consequent portion of learning trials; and (c) multiple exemplar training on the acquisition of item tacts of olfactory stimuli, emergence of category tacts of olfactory stimuli, generalization of category tacts, and emergence of category matching, with three children diagnosed with ASD. Results showed that all participants learned the item and category tacts following teaching, participants demonstrated generalization across category tacts, and category matching emerged for all participants.
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Olfactory Perception, Prompting, Error Correction, Stimuli, Children, Training, Generalization, Conditioning, Program Effectiveness
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Language: English
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