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- Title
Teaching a Young Child With Autism to Request Assistance Conditionally: A Preliminary Study.
- Authors
Reichle, Joe; Dropik, Patricia L.; Alden-Anderson, Elizabeth; Haley, Tom
- Abstract
Purpose: Investigators taught a 5-year-old boy with autistic disorder and severe language delay to conditionally use requests for assistance. Method: A within-participant multiple-probe design across 3 functional tasks was implemented in order to evaluate the child's acquisition and conditional use of requests for assistance during intervention with each task. Results: Results indicated initial acquisition of requests for assistance followed by a brief period of overgeneralization. As independence in completing a task increased, requests for assistance correspondingly decreased. The participant's conditional use of requests for assistance and independent task completion were sustained across time. Conclusion: This study highlights the need to assess conditional use of newly taught communicative behavior.
- Subjects
AUTISM in children; COMMUNICATIVE competence in children; COMMUNICATIVE disorders in children; LANGUAGE disorders; LEARNING disabilities; SPEECH disorders in children
- Publication
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2008, Vol 17, Issue 3, p231
- ISSN
1058-0360
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1044/1058-0360(2008/022)