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O'Neill, Sean J.; McDowell, Claire; Leslie, Julian C. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2022
Variations in prompt delay procedures are used in discrete-trial training to reduce the occurrence of errors before task mastery. However, the variations are seldom compared systematically. Using an adapted alternating treatments design, the present study compared progressive prompt delay with 2-s or 5-s constant prompt delay, on the acquisition…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Prompting, Intervals, Autism
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Wiklund, Mari; Laakso, Minna – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
This paper analyses disfluencies and ungrammatical expressions in the speech of 11-13-year-old Finnish-speaking boys with ASD (N = 5) and with neurotypical development (N = 6). The ASD data were from authentic group therapy sessions and neurotypical data from teacher-led group discussions. The proportion of disfluencies and ungrammatical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Impairments, Grammar, Error Patterns
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Sawaya, Helen; McGonigle-Chalmers, Maggie; Kusel, Iain – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2021
Objectives: The aim of the study is to distinguish between perceptuomotor and cognitive inflexibility as the source of set-switching difficulties in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Methods: Seventeen adolescents with ASD and 17 neurotypical controls were presented with a computerized sequencing game using colored shapes. The sequence…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Adolescents, Perceptual Motor Learning