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Corina Jimenez-Gomez; Courtney Hannula; Ashley P. Liggett; Samuel Shvarts; Christopher A. Podlesnik – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2024
We assessed whether novel praise statements could be used to (a) maintain and increase responses with existing reinforcement histories and (b) teach a previously untaught response among children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder across two experiments. During response-stimulus pairing, two responses resulted in preferred edibles but only one…
Descriptors: Positive Reinforcement, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Responses, Stimuli
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Erin L. Sainsbury; Tina M. Sidener; Catherine Taylor-Santa; Kenneth F. Reeve; David W. Sidener – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2024
We evaluated the effects of a discrimination training procedure for establishing praise as a reinforcer for three children with autism spectrum disorder. After establishing two praise words as discriminative stimuli and two nonsense words as S-deltas, we evaluated whether the stimuli then functioned as reinforcers by presenting each stimulus as a…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Training, Learning Processes, Positive Reinforcement
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Victoria Scott; Valdeep Saini; Micaela Totino – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2024
Inappropriate mealtime behavior (IMB) is a type of feeding challenge within the broader class of food refusal. The purpose of this study was to critically analyze the efficacy of interventions for the treatment of IMB through a meta-analysis of research using single-case experimental designs. We examined the extent to which different interventions…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Eating Habits, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification