The effect of providing choices on skill acquisition and competing behavior of children with autism during discrete trial instruction
✍ Scribed by Bobby Newman; Meredith Needelman; Dana R. Reinecke; Adrienne Robek
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 101 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1072-0847
- DOI
- 10.1002/bin.99
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Discrete trial instruction was carried out for three students with autism. An alternating treatments design was implemented. In one condition, teachers chose the reinforcers to be used and the order in which programs were conducted. In a second condition, students chose the order of programs and the reinforcers to be used. Speed of skill acquisition and the presence of competing behavior such as tantrums, aggression, escape attempts or idiosyncratic noncompliance responses were measured. Speed of skill acquisition did not differ between the two conditions, but competing behavior was markedly reduced during student choice conditions. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.