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Using instructive feedback to teach category names to children with autism
Author(s) -
Loughrey Tara Olivia,
Betz Alison M.,
Majdalany Lina M.,
Nicholson Katie
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1002/jaba.123
Subject(s) - autism , psychology , reinforcement , stimulus (psychology) , developmental psychology , stimulus control , cognitive psychology , social psychology , neuroscience , nicotine
We evaluated the effects of instructive feedback (IF) on the emergence of spoken category names with 2 children who had been diagnosed with autism. IF stimuli were presented during listener discrimination training and consisted of presenting the category name associated with each target stimulus. Results suggest that participants acquired the speaker relations in the absence of prompting and reinforcement. Clinical implications and future research on the use of IF as a teaching procedure for children with autism are discussed.