The Effect of the Movie Time Social Learning Method on the Emotional Inferencing Skills in an Adult with Autism Spectrum Disorder

<p>Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have difficulty finding employment and maintaining social relationships. Professional and personal interactions require individuals to make inferences, or read between the lines. Inferencing is a challenge for individuals with ASD because it requires complex information processing. More specifically, it involves the integration of cognitive and linguistic information. There is a lack of research using complex stimuli to treat inferencing. An A-B-A-B design with one adult with ASD was used to examine the effectiveness of a movie-based method, <em>Movie Time Social Learning</em>(Vagin, 2012), on improving the emotional inferencing skills of one young adult with ASD. The participant answered factual and emotional inference questions about short <em>Disney</em>and <em>Pixar</em>movie clips. Visual supports, explicit teaching, and scaffolding as described in <em>Movie Time Social Learning</em>were used during the treatment phases to teach the participant how to make inferences. Social validity results suggest the participant enjoyed the use of <em>Movie Time Social Learning</em>; however, post-test results and visual analysis of the data suggest there may be other factors that influenced the emotional inferencing skills. The current study may inform clinicians about treating emotional inferencing using movies and the external supports from the <em>Movie Time Social Learning </em>method (2012).</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

MS

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Speech-Language Pathology (SLP)

Year dc:date.available

2018

Author dc:creator

• Reade, Jenna

Contributors dc:contributor

• Katherine Belardi
• Lori Marra
• Heather Rusiewicz

• autism
• ASD
• autism spectrum disorder
• inferencing
• emotional inferencing
• Movie Time Social Learning
• Speech Pathology and Audiology

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1471

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-2489