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Using backward chaining and a physical guidance delay to teach self‐feeding
Author(s) -
Rubio Emily K.,
Pichardo Denise,
Borrero Carrie S.W.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
behavioral interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.605
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1099-078X
pISSN - 1072-0847
DOI - 10.1002/bin.1504
Subject(s) - chaining , backward chaining , psychology , intervention (counseling) , developmental psychology , forward chaining , repertoire , cognitive psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , computer science , artificial intelligence , physics , expert system , acoustics , inference engine
Many children with feeding disorders lack age‐appropriate self‐feeding without intervention, irrespective of whether refusal is a motivational or skill deficit. When a target behavior is infrequent or absent, multistep tasks can be shaped using chaining by targeting a preexisting step within an individual's behavioral repertoire. Studies suggest when the preexisting response is in the final step of the chain, backward chaining may increase mastery. In this study, we investigated the use of backward chaining to increase self‐feeding of solids of a 4‐year‐old male.