Manding in Children with Autism: Transfer of Control from Adults to Peers

Individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit significant delays, regression, and deficits. One deficit area is that of communication and social skills with peers. The present study assesses whether children diagnosed with ASD can learn to transfer the skill of producing mands for familiar items from an adult to a typically developing peer. This study replicates previous research and extends it with three additional manipulations: (a) reduction of prompt dependence, (b) transfer of manding control from an adult to a trained typically developing peer, and (c) a generalization test to a novel but trained typically developing peer. Results demonstrate that for 2 out of the 4 participants manding could be systematically transferred from the adult to a typically developing peer, and then generalized to a novel, typically developing peer. Implications for future research are discussed.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Miller, Michael Layne

Contributors dc:contributor

• Wendy Williams
• Stephanie Stein
• Ian Loverro

• Applied Behavior Analysis
• Autism
• Social
• Peers
• Mands
• Establishing Operations
• Psychology
• Social and Behavioral Sciences

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/532

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.cwu.edu:etd-1533