Advancing Imitation and Requesting Skills in Toddlers with Down Syndrome

Autor/inn/en	Feeley, Kathleen M.; Jones, Emily A.; Blackburn, Catherine; Bauer, Sara
Titel	Advancing Imitation and Requesting Skills in Toddlers with Down Syndrome
Quelle	In: Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 32 (2011) 6, S.2415-2430 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0891-4222
DOI	10.1016/j.ridd.2011.07.018
Schlagwörter	Intervention; Imitation; Down Syndrome; Toddlers; Social Development; Communication Problems; Communication Skills; Prompting; Child Behavior; Reinforcement; Verbal Communication; Generalization; Eye Movements + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Downs Syndrome; Down''s Syndrome'; Down-Syndrom; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Soziale Entwicklung; Kommunikationsbarriere; Kommunikationsstil; Benutzerführung; Positive Verstärkung; Augenbewegung
Abstract	Drawing upon information about the Down syndrome behavioral phenotype and empirically based intervention strategies, we examined intervention addressing early communication impairments in young children with Down syndrome. Intervention involved multiple opportunities, shaping, prompting, and reinforcement to address both verbal imitation and requesting. Intervention also incorporated the relative strengths in social development characteristic of the Down syndrome behavioral phenotype by focusing on a more social request prior to addressing the more impaired instrumental request, as well as incorporating social consequences. Three of the four toddlers with Down syndrome were taught verbal imitation skills, two of whom generalized to novel sounds. All four toddlers with Down syndrome acquired requesting skills in the form of gaze shifting and vocalizing; three were also taught verbal approximations of requesting words (e.g., "mm" for "more") using imitative prompts. These results contribute to the small, but growing, literature demonstrating behavior analytic interventions informed by an understanding of the Down syndrome behavioral phenotype. (Contains 7 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10