Generalization of Negatively Reinforced Mands in Children with Autism

Autor/inn/en	Groskreutz, Nicole C.; Groskreutz, Mark P.; Bloom, Sarah E.; Slocum, Timothy A.
Titel	Generalization of Negatively Reinforced Mands in Children with Autism
Quelle	In: Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 47 (2014) 3, S.560-579 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-8855
DOI	10.1002/jaba.151
Schlagwörter	Autism; Stimuli; Responses; Males; Communication Strategies; Sensory Experience; Generalization; Correlation; Behavior Problems; Communication Skills; Reinforcement + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Anreizsystem; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Kommunikationsstrategie; Sinnerfahrung; Korrelation; Kommunikationsstil; Positive Verstärkung
Abstract	Each day, people encounter stimuli they find unpleasant. Some children with autism may require systematic instruction to acquire the communication skills necessary to request the termination of such aversive stimuli. We taught 2 school-aged boys with autism a mand (e.g., signing "stop") that could be used to escape a variety of aversive stimuli. First, we employed a systematic assessment to identify aversive stimuli to use during training. We then conducted mand training sequentially across those stimuli until sufficient exemplars were trained for generalization to occur to untrained stimuli. For both participants, cross-stimulus generalization was observed after training with 2 stimuli. Participants manded for escape in the presence of aversive stimuli, but almost never manded in the presence of preferred stimuli or when the programmed stimuli were absent. In addition, we found an inverse relation between acquisition of the mand and engagement in problem behavior and evidence of generalization to nontraining contexts. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10