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IMPROVING WRITTEN LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE OF ADOLESCENTS WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME
Author(s) -
Delano Monica E.
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.2007.50-06
Subject(s) - psychology , asperger syndrome , autism , developmental psychology , clinical psychology
The effects of a multicomponent intervention involving self‐regulated strategy development delivered via video self‐modeling on the written language performance of 3 students with Asperger syndrome were examined. During intervention sessions, each student watched a video of himself performing strategies for increasing the number of words written and the number of functional essay elements. He then wrote a persuasive essay. The number of words written and number of functional essay elements included in each essay were measured. Each student demonstrated gains in the number of words written and number of functional essay elements. Maintenance of treatment effects at follow‐up varied across targets and participants. Implications for future research are suggested.