USING MULTIPLE‐EXEMPLAR TRAINING TO TEACH A GENERALIZED REPERTOIRE OF SHARING TO CHILDREN WITH AUTISM

2011/06/01 by Denise Marzullo‐Kerth, Sharon A. Reeve, Kenneth F. Reeve +2 · 67 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Autism #Autism Spectrum Disorder Research #Behavioral and Psychological Studies #Cognitive psychology #Developmental psychology #Family and Disability Support Research #Generalization #Intervention (counseling) #Multiple baseline design #Neuroscience #Psychology #Reinforcement #Repertoire #Social psychology #Stimulus (psychology) #Stimulus generalization

paper · pdf · doi:10.1901/jaba.2011.44-279

published in Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 44(2), 279-294 (Wiley)

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Abstract

The current study examined the utility of multiple-exemplar training to teach children with autism to share. Stimuli from 3 of 4 categories were trained using a treatment package of video modeling, prompting, and reinforcement. Offers to share increased for all 3 children following the introduction of treatment, with evidence of skill maintenance. In addition, within-stimulus-category generalization of sharing was evident for all participants, although only 1 participant demonstrated across-category generalization of sharing. Offers to share occurred in a novel setting, with familiar and novel stimuli, and in the presence of novel adults and peers for all participants during posttreatment probes.

Citations

• AN IMPLICIT TECHNOLOGY OF GENERALIZATION1
• EVALUATION OF A MULTIPLE‐STIMULUS PRESENTATION FORMAT FOR ASSESSING REINFORCER PREFERENCES

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