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Reinforcer Choice on Skill Acquisition for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Systematic Replication.

Authors :
Northgrave J
Vladescu JC
DeBar RM
Toussaint KA
Schnell LK
Source :
Behavior analysis in practice [Behav Anal Pract] 2018 Apr 16; Vol. 12 (2), pp. 401-406. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Apr 16 (Print Publication: 2019).
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

Providing students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) a choice of putative reinforcers during learning trials may confer advantage during skill acquisition programming. However, such advantage should not be assumed and may not be associated with the most efficient instructional arrangement. In the current study, we taught labels of common object or conditional discriminations to participants with ASD and evaluated efficiency of instruction across child- and experimenter-choice instructional conditions. The results indicated that the most efficient acquisition was observed during the experimenter-choice condition for both participants.<br />Competing Interests: Conflict of InterestThe authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.<br /> (© Association for Behavior Analysis International 2018.)

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1998-1929
Volume :
12
Issue :
2
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Behavior analysis in practice
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
31976245
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-018-0246-8