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Publication Date: 2020
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Comparison of Two Discrimination Methods in Teaching Chinese Children with Autism
Lin, Fan Yu; Zhu, Jing
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, v53 n2 p1145-1152 Spr 2020
In teaching conditional discriminations to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), practitioners may progress from simple to conditional discriminations or may teach conditional discriminations from the onset of instruction. Some research indicates that teaching simple discriminations first may be unnecessary and that teaching may more efficiently focus on conditional discriminations exclusively. This study replicated comparisons of simple-to-conditional and conditional-only discrimination training methods in teaching audio-visual conditional discriminations to Chinese preschoolers with ASD. Results indicated the conditional-only training method appeared to be more efficient in teaching these skills.
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Preschool Children, Teaching Methods, Skill Development, Foreign Countries, Conditioning, Visual Discrimination, Auditory Discrimination
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Language: English
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