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- Title
Teaching self‐control to reduce overt food stealing by children with autism and developmental disorders.
- Authors
Zhou, Liming; Hu, Xiaoyi; Zhai, Yuxin; Zhang, Geyi; Wang, Xin
- Abstract
Food stealing is often a serious behavioral problem among children with diagnoses of autism and other developmental disorders. Very few empirical studies concerning this behavioral challenge have been reported. We applied a correspondence training procedure to teach self‐control as replacement behavior to four children with autism and developmental disorders who displayed food stealing in the community. A changing criterion design embedded within a nonconcurrent multiple‐probe across participants design was used. The treatment succeeded for all four participants by increasing latency to eating highly preferred food to a predetermined criterion and reducing occurrences of food stealing to zero. Three participants generalized the replacement behavior to natural settings and maintained the behavior for 2 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, and 4 months. One participant without expressive language was taught successfully during treatment trials but failed to maintain and generalize the behavior. A functional relation between delaying food eating and Say‐Do correspondence training was demonstrated.
- Subjects
THEFT prevention; EXPERIMENTAL design; SELF-control; DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities; AUTISM; FOOD; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; DATA analysis software; CHILDREN
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 2023, Vol 38, Issue 3, p725
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bin.1945