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Direct linkPeters, Lindsay C.; Thompson, Rachel H. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2015
Successful conversation requires that the speaker's behavior is sensitive to nonvocal listener responses. We observed children with autism spectrum disorder during conversation probes in which a listener periodically displayed nonvocal cues that she was uninterested in the conversation. We used behavioral skills training to teach conversation…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Interpersonal Communication, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Garcia-Albea, Elena; Reeve, Sharon A.; Brothers, Kevin J.; Reeve, Kenneth F. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2014
Script-fading procedures have been shown to be effective for teaching children with autism to initiate and participate in social interactions without vocal prompts from adults. In previous script and script-fading research, however, there has been no demonstration of a generalized repertoire of vocal interactions under the control of naturally…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scripts, Autism, Interaction
Peer reviewedHughes, Carolyn; Frea, William D. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1997
A study used functional analyses to identify the social variables that maintained the inappropriate social-communicative behaviors of two adolescent students with mental retardation. Results were used to identify appropriate, functionally equivalent behaviors that the students were taught to self-monitor. The use of appropriate social skills was…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence
Peer reviewedRichman, David M.; Berg, Wendy K.; Wacker, David P.; Stephens, Tracy; Rankin, Barbara; Kilroy, Jennette – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1997
Pretreatment assessment data were used to enhance an existing treatment package to reduce aggression and to increase the positive social interactions of a 9-year-old boy with moderate mental retardation and Hunter's syndrome. Additional reinforcements and punishment components were added and resulted in positive social interactions and suppressed…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Modification, Children, Interpersonal Communication
Peer reviewedHughes, Carolyn; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1995
The effects of multiple-exemplar self-instructional training on acquiring and generalizing conversational interaction was studied with four high school students with mental retardation. It was found that nondisabled peers were effective in teaching the multiple-exemplar strategy and that training was associated with increased generalized…
Descriptors: Generalization, High School Students, High Schools, Independent Study
Peer reviewedMarcus, Bethany A.; Vollmer, Timothy R. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1995
The effects on compliance of two types of differential negative reinforcement (DNR) were studied with a five-year-old girl with moderate mental retardation and a history of severe disruption. Escape from instructional trials was either contingent on a communicative behavior or compliance. Behaviors improved with both interventions, but compliance…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Compliance (Psychology)
