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Adults with Autism Tend to Undermine the Hidden Environmental Structure: Evidence from a Visual Associative Learning Task
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Sapey-Triomphe, Laurie-Anne; Sonié, Sandrine; Hénaff, Marie-Anne; Mattout, Jérémie; Schmitz, Christina – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
The learning-style theory of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) (Qian, Lipkin, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 5:77, 2011) states that ASD individuals differ from neurotypics in the way they learn and store information about the environment and its structure. ASD would rather adopt a "lookup-table" strategy (LUT: memorizing each…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Cognitive Style
Evaluation of Behavior Skills Training for Teaching Work Skills to a Student with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Morgan, Christopher A.; Wine, Byron – Education and Treatment of Children, 2018
This study evaluated behavioral skills training (BST), in a multiple baseline across behaviors design, for teaching four job skills to an 18-year-old student diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. The job skills were taught in the natural environment of a fully functioning restaurant. Following BST the four skills maintained at six months after…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Skill Development, Behavior Modification
Efficacy of Paraprofessional-Implemented Video Prompting to Teach Vocational Skills to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Seaman, Rachel L.; Cannella-Malone, Helen I.; Brock, Matthew E.; Dueker, Scott A. – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2018
Researchers have previously shown that video prompting can promote vocational skill acquisition for students with autism, and in a prior study, we demonstrated a model to train a paraprofessional to implement this practice. In this study, we evaluated (a) the degree to which the paraprofessional generalized implementation to new students and…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Paraprofessional Personnel, Teaching Methods, Autism
Instruction in Letter-Sound Correspondences for Children with Autism and Limited Speech
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Benedek-Wood, Elizabeth; McNaughton, David; Light, Janice – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2016
This study used a multiple probe across participants' research design to evaluate the effects of instruction on the acquisition of letter-sound correspondences (LSCs) by three young children with autism spectrum disorder and limited speech. All three children (ages 3-5 years) reached criterion for identifying the LSCs targeted during instruction,…
Descriptors: Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Language Acquisition, Young Children, Autism
The Effects of Multiple Exemplar Training on a Working Memory Task Involving Sequential Responding in Children with Autism
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Baltruschat, Lisa; Hasselhorn, Marcus; Tarbox, Jonathan; Dixon, Dennis R.; Najdowski, Adel; Mullins, Ryan David; Gould, Evelyn – Psychological Record, 2012
This study is part of a programmatic line of research into the use of basic positive reinforcement procedures for improving working memory in children with autism spectrum disorders. The authors evaluated the effects of multiple exemplar training, utilizing positive reinforcement, on performance of a "digit span backwards" task--a test of working…
Descriptors: Autism, Stimuli, Short Term Memory, Positive Reinforcement
The Perception and Identification of Facial Emotions in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders Using the "Let's Face It!" Emotion Skills Battery
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Tanaka, James W.; Wolf, Julie M.; Klaiman, Cheryl; Koenig, Kathleen; Cockburn, Jeffrey; Herlihy, Lauren; Brown, Carla; Stahl, Sherin S.; South, Mikle; McPartland, James C.; Kaiser, Martha D.; Schultz, Robert T. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: Although impaired social-emotional ability is a hallmark of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the perceptual skills and mediating strategies contributing to the social deficits of autism are not well understood. A perceptual skill that is fundamental to effective social communication is the ability to accurately perceive and interpret…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Autism, Intelligence Quotient, Identification