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Download full textBoutot, E. Amanda; Hume, Kara – Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Council for Exceptional Children (NJ1), 2010
Recent mandates related to the implementation of evidence-based practices for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) require that autism professionals both understand and are able to implement practices based on the science of applied behavior analysis (ABA). The use of the term "applied behavior analysis" and its related concepts…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Autism, Behavioral Science Research, Timeout
Peer reviewedMiller, Neal; Neuringer, Allen – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2000
Five adolescents with autism, 5 control participants, and 4 child controls received rewards for varying their sequences of responses while playing a computer game. In preceding and following phases, rewards were provided at approximately the same rate but were independent of variability. When reinforced, variability increased significantly in all…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Development
Bettison, S. – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1974
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Children, Emotional Disturbances
Yamaguchi, Kaoru – RIEEC Research Bulletin, 1977
In a study of behavior modification two Down's syndrome preschool children, the first a 5-year-old boy with autistic behavior patterns and the second a 4-year-old girl whose behavior problem was to reject other children, were examined. The first S was engaged in ball catching activities with a teacher with positive reinforcement (playing the S's…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Case Studies
Perez-Gonzalez, Luis Antonio; Williams, Gladys – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2002
Five children with autism and mental retardation learned to discriminate objects in response to spoken names or to match amounts to numbers with a combined blocking procedure. The procedure involved presenting the same spoken word until 10 consecutive correct responses occurred and keeping the left-right location of objects constant. (Contains…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
DesLauriers, Austin M.; Carlson, Carole F. – 1969
Focusing on the education of the autistic child as an awakening process, the book discusses the role of meaningful human communication and reports a research program which applied a therapeutic educational technique. The development of language in children, the diagnosis of an autistic child, autistic behavior and sensory and emotional…
Descriptors: Autism, Case Studies, Child Development, Clinical Diagnosis
Hamblin, Robert L.; And Others – 1967
A description of the Social Exchange Laboratory's work with autistic children is presented. The laboratory's philosophy of the exchange theory of autism, seen as a set of habitual response patterns maintained and intensified by exchanges which are inadvertantly structured by others in the child's environment, is set forth with characteristics,…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories
