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Egel, Andrew L.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1981
The investigation systematically assessed whether four autistic children (5 to 7 years old) would improve their learning of discrimination tasks if they observed normal children perform the task correctly. In each case, the peer modeling procedure produced rapid achievement of the acquisition criterion which was maintained after the peer models…
Descriptors: Autism, Exceptional Child Research, Imitation, Mainstreaming
Cook, Harold; Murray, Frank B. – 1973
The purpose of the present experiment was to investigate whether the effect of observing a peer who was conserving could facilitate subsequent acquisition and transfer of conservation ability in a nonconserving child. Eighty-two nonconserving first grade children acquired the ability to give conservation judgments and reasons on six conservation…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept), Grade 1, Middle Class