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Peer reviewedSummers, Jane A.; Craik, Fergus I. M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1994
This study examined the effectiveness of using "subject-performed tasks" to improve memory efficiency of eight autistic children. The procedure involved instructing children to carry out and later remember a series of actions. The procedure's effectiveness was attributed to autistic subjects' lack of verbal encoding strategies and…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Instructional Effectiveness, Memory
Peer reviewedWard, William D.; Stare, Susan Ward – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1990
The role of subject verbalization in the generalization of verbal-nonverbal correspondence was investigated in 12 kindergarten children who underwent either correspondence training (subject verbalization) or performing a behavior verbalized by the experimenter. Pupils who received correspondence training demonstrated greater generalization.…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Generalization, Instructional Effectiveness
