Assessing the Effects of Observational Conditioning and Response-Contingent Pairing on the Vocalizations of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autor/inn/en	Chance, Sydni; Cividini-Motta, Catia; Livingston, Cynthia
Titel	Assessing the Effects of Observational Conditioning and Response-Contingent Pairing on the Vocalizations of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Quelle	In: Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 37 (2021) 2, S.194-216 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Cividini-Motta, Catia)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0889-9401
DOI	10.1007/s40616-021-00157-2
Schlagwörter	Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Interpersonal Communication; Communication Skills; Verbal Communication; Operant Conditioning; Program Effectiveness; Reinforcement; Children; Responses; Contingency Management + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Kommunikationsstil; Operante Konditionierung; Positive Verstärkung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Krisenbewältigung
Abstract	Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often display impairments in communication, such as limited echoic behavior, few vocal-verbal responses, and a lack of functional communication. One potential way to foster the acquisition of vocal responses in individuals with disabilities is by conditioning vocalizations as reinforcers. Conditioning procedures include stimulus-stimulus pairing, response-contingent pairing (RCP), operant discrimination training, and observational conditioning (OC). However, previous research has not evaluated whether OC can be used to condition vocalizations as reinforcers. The current study assessed whether two conditioning procedures, RCP and OC, were effective in conditioning vocalizations as a reinforcer and also evaluated their effect on the rate of vocalizations. Participants included three children with ASD, ages 5-10 years old. During the conditioning phase, rates of vocalizations during the RCP and OC conditions and a control condition were compared within an adapted alternating-treatments design. Reinforcer assessments were completed in a multielement design, pre- and postconditioning, to assess whether the target vocalizations acquired reinforcing properties. A conditioning effect and an increase in the rate of vocalizations were observed for two of the three participants; however, the conditioning effect was minor for one participant. Overall, the results of this study indicate both the RCP and OC procedures may be beneficial in increasing vocalizations for some children and could be incorporated into clinical programs and further explored in future research. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01