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Assesses the use of choice during language intervention on disruptive behavior, social play/pragmatic behaviors, and language development in children with autism. Choice opportunities provided for children with autism; Comparison of choice and no choice conditions in a naturalistic language intervention procedure; Reduction in disruptive behaviors; Increase in levels of appropriate social play.

The article focuses on the issues concerning the trend of the growing up corporate culture in relation to media studies. It states that the culture in which children are invited to participate is becoming increasingly commercial and individual and less social as well as civic. It also mentions that one media researcher after another is expressing concern about the problems associated with changing the culture of citizenship such as the policymakers, teenagers and academics. In connection, the author notes that media producers must now accept some responsibility for encouraging political citizenship by providing children and teenagers with critical news services.

A variety of techniques grounded in behavioral psychology, and more specifically in applied behavior analysis, have been established to increase and improve play skills in children with autistic spectrum disorders. This article introduces a set of efficacious methods, which range from highly structured techniques to more naturalistic strategies. It focuses on object play as other authors in the issue discuss social play in greater depth. Behavioral techniques that are reviewed include: discrete trial training, use of stereotyped behaviors to increase play skills, pivotal response training, reciprocal imitation training, differential reinforcement of appropriate behavior, in vivo modeling and play scripts, and video modeling. A discussion of expanding behavior techniques to teach more complex play as well as training in varied environments is also presented. References are provided to allow the reader to obtain more in-depth information about each technique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]