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- Title
"Let's Talk!": Increasing Novel Peer-Directed Questions by High School Students with Autism to Their General Education Peers.
- Authors
Reilly, Caitlin; Hughes, Carolyn; Harvey, Michelle; Brigham, Nicolette; Cosgriff, Joseph; Kaplan, Lauren; Bernstein, Rebekah
- Abstract
We taught three high school students with high-functioning autism to increase their novel peer-directed questions when using a communication book to converse with general education partners at school. Novel question training was associated with participants asking peer-directed questions not displayed in communi-cation books across a variety of conversational partners. Partners systematically responded to questions participants asked throughout the study, whether questions asked were displayed in participants' books or not. In addition, partners ' initiations to participants increased when participants asked more peer-directed questions not displayed in their books. Social validation data gathered from participants and partners generally confirmed the importance of the study's goals and outcomes; normative data indicated that participants engaged in conversation in a fashion similar to their general education peers. Findings are discussed with respect to future research and practice.
- Subjects
AUTISTIC children; PEER communication; PEER counseling of students; CONVERSATION analysis; GENERAL education; PSYCHOLOGY; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Education & Training in Autism & Developmental Disabilities, 2014, Vol 49, Issue 2, p214
- ISSN
2154-1647
- Publication type
Article