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标题：Establishing initial auditory‐visual conditional discriminations and emergence of initial tacts in young children with autism spectrum disorder
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作者：Wayne W. Fisher ; Billie J. Retzlaff ; Jessica S. Akers 等
期刊名称：Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
印刷版ISSN：0021-8855
电子版ISSN：1938-3703
出版年度：2019
卷号：52
期号：4
页码：1089-1106
DOI：10.1002/jaba.586
出版社：University of Kansas - Dept Human Development
摘要：Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often display impaired listener skills, and few studies have evaluated procedures for establishing initial auditory-visual conditional discrimination skills. We developed and evaluated a treatment package for training initial auditory-visual conditional discriminations based on the extant research on training such discriminations in children with ASD with at least some preexisting skills in this area. The treatment package included (a) conditional-only training, (b) prompting the participant to echo the sample stimulus as a differential observing response, (c) prompting correct selection responses using an identity-match prompt, (d) using progressively delayed prompts, and (e) repeating trials until the participant emitted an independent correct response. Results indicated all participants mastered all listener targets, and the two participants for whom we tested the emergence of corresponding tacts showed mastery of most tacts without direct training. We discuss these results relative to prior research on listener skills and tacts. © 2019 The Authors. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (SEAB).
关键词：auditory-visual conditional discrimination;autism spectrum disorder;differential observing response;emergent responding;identity-match prompt;receptive-expressive transfer