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Dotto-Fojut, Kim M.; Reeve, Kenneth F.; Townsend, Dawn B.; Progar, Patrick R. – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2011
Previous research suggests that vocational skills training for individuals with autism may increase the likelihood that they may be effectively employed. In the present study, a multiple-baseline-across-participants design was used to assess the effects of graduated guidance, scripts, and script fading to teach four adolescents with autism in a…
Descriptors: Scripts, Autism, Adolescents, Problem Solving
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Argott, Paul; Townsend, Dawn Buffington; Sturmey, Peter; Poulson, Claire L. – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2008
Previous studies have shown that most individuals with autism do not show empathic responding. The present study is an attempt to teach such skills. Script-fading procedures have been used to teach other social-interaction skills, so they are applied here to teach empathic responding. This study included three adolescents with autism, two males…
Descriptors: Scripts, Stimuli, Autism, Adolescents