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Effects of operant discrimination training on the vocalizations of nonverbal children with autism
Author(s) -
Lepper Tracy L.,
Petursdottir Anna Ingeborg,
Esch Barbara E.
Publication year - 2013
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.55
Subject(s) - psychology , autism , stimulus (psychology) , nonverbal communication , operant conditioning , stimulus control , audiology , reinforcement , developmental psychology , discrimination learning , cognitive psychology , neuroscience , social psychology , medicine , nicotine
We evaluated the effects of operant discrimination training (ODT) on the vocalizations of 3 boys with autism. We compared ODT to a stimulus–stimulus pairing (SSP) condition and a control condition in an adapted alternating‐treatments design. ODT increased the target vocalizations of all participants compared to the control condition, and its effects were similar to SSP. All participants preferred ODT to SSP.