A 4-year old child with autism was taught to make a social initiation statement following a remote-controlled tactile prompt (RCT). The RCT prompt was taught by using a time-delay procedure with written script cards containing initiation statements. Training trials occurred in 6 different play locations in the child's room. Restricted Trial training consisted of allowing the child to play independently, activating the RCT prompt and playing with the child based on any initiation until a warning to end was
given. In Free Play training, the warning to end the activity was removed. The child's initiation statements
increased from 0 in baseline, to spontaneous initiations in 100% of the trials in all training and generalization phases. The number of words in an initiation statement increased from 3 to 25 per trial. Spontaneous initiations in the No RCT phase generalized to the child's mother without training.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc278319 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Bingham-Watts, Kera L. |
| Contributors | Rosales-Ruiz, Jesus, Hyten, Cloyd, Ellis, Janet K. |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | vi, 25 leaves : ill., Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved., Bingham-Watts, Kera L. |
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