TREATING EXCESSIVELY SLOW RESPONDING OF A YOUNG MAN WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME USING DIFFERENTIAL REINFORCEMENT OF SHORT RESPONSE LATENCIES | Zendy

Tiger Jeffrey H. | Zendy; Bouxsein Kelly J. | Zendy; Fisher Wayne W. | Zendy

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TREATING EXCESSIVELY SLOW RESPONDING OF A YOUNG MAN WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME USING DIFFERENTIAL REINFORCEMENT OF SHORT RESPONSE LATENCIES

Author(s) -

Tiger Jeffrey H.,

Bouxsein Kelly J.,

Fisher Wayne W.

Publication year - 2007

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 - 10.1901/jaba.2007.40-559

Subject(s) - reinforcement , psychology , differential reinforcement , contingency , asperger syndrome , latency (audio) , developmental psychology , contingency management , differential (mechanical device) , cognitive psychology , autism , psychiatry , social psychology , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , telecommunications , intervention (counseling) , aerospace engineering , engineering

Fjellstedt and Sulzer‐Azaroff (1973) used differential reinforcement of short latencies to decrease a child's latency to comply with instructions. We replicated this contingency with a young man diagnosed with Asperger syndrome across two tasks (question answering and math problem solving). We added a differential reinforcement contingency to teach the participant to discriminate between math problems that could be answered rapidly and those that required more time for accurate performance.

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