The establishment of auditory discrimination in children with autism
Earlier studies have indicated that individuals with autism may perform poorly on some auditory discrimination tasks. In this study three participants, one child with autism and two typically developed children in the age 6 – 11 years old were trained to establish auditive discrimination through successive- and simultaneous discrimination training. The training was done in five experimental conditions, establishing the response, successive discrimination of one auditive stimulus, simultaneous discrimination of one auditory stimulus, successive discrimination of two auditive stimuli, and simultaneous discrimination of two auditory stimuli. Results lead to successful discrimination in all experimental conditions for typically developing children. Because of the extraordinary circumstances of the global pandemic the data collection for the participant diagnosed with autism was abrupted. Key words: autism, auditory discrimination, simultaneous discrimination, successive discrimination, children
Sálfræði, Einhverfa, Hávaði, Autism spectrum disorders, Noise
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