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Publication Date: 2007
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Establishing a Generalized Repertoire of Helping Behavior in Children with Autism
Reeve, Sharon A.; Reeve, Kenneth F.; Townsend, Dawn Buffington; Poulson, Claire L.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, v40 n1 p123-136 Spr 2007
The present study used a multiple baseline across participants design to assess whether 4 children with autism could learn a generalized repertoire of helping adults with different tasks through the use of a multicomponent teaching package. Different helping responses were taught in the presence of multiple exemplars of discriminative stimuli drawn from experimenter-defined categories of helping behavior (e.g., locating objects, putting away items, setting up an activity). During the training condition, video models, prompting, and reinforcement were used. The results showed that all 4 children learned to emit appropriate helping responses in the presence of discriminative stimuli from the helping categories used during training. Generalization of helping responses was observed in the presence of untrained discriminative stimuli during additional probe conditions. Additional pre- and post-intervention generalization trials showed that the frequency of helping responses also increased in the presence of novel stimuli, in a novel setting, and with a novel instructor.
Descriptors: Stimuli, Helping Relationship, Generalization, Autism, Prosocial Behavior, Children, Teaching Methods, Training, Prompting, Audiovisual Aids, Reinforcement
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