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Denna kvalitativa intervjustudie fokuserar på hur kuratorer upplever samtal med individer som har autism, med fokus på förhållningssätt och relationer. Autism är en funktionsnedsättning som bland annat kännetecknas av begränsningar i social interaktion, verbal och icke-verbal kommunikation och repetitiva beteenden. Dessa begränsningar kan innebära en rad olika svårigheter i det dagliga livet, och att hjälpa dessa personer kan vara komplext. Professionella som möter dessa individer behöver därför kunskap om vad det innebär att leva med autism. Fyra kuratorer intervjuades, och materialet har analyserats med hjälp av en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Studiens resultat visar att relationen är viktig för samtalet, även vikten av att bygga och upprätthålla en relation. Vidare framkommer det att kuratorer upplever ett gott bemötande som ett viktigt förhållningssätt i mötet med individen.

Observational learning is defined as the capacity of an organism to acquire new behaviors as a result of viewing the behavior of a model. Researchers argue that learning via observation may account for the natural acquisition of behavior. While the ability to acquire new behaviors through observation has been studied heavily in typically developing children, as well as participants with developmental disabilities, no research has directly addressed observational learning in verbal operants. The current study examined observational learning across three verbal operants: tact, listener responding by feature, function, and class, and intraverbals using a multiple probe design. Two girls diagnosed with autism served as the learner model and observer in the study. The results demonstrated that the learner was able to learn the responses to mastery through direct instruction and reinforcement while the observer learned the responses to mastery through observation. Implications for teaching children with autism are discussed.