Training Siblings of Children with Autism to Instruct Play: Acquisition, Generalization, and Indirect Effects

A multiple baseline design was employed to evaluate the effectiveness of a sibling training package including modeling, role-play, and feedback on play and engagement between children with autism and their siblings. The results of two experiments suggest that, following training, siblings of children with autism correctly implemented all trained interaction components. Additionally, Experiment II assessed and programmed generalization to other materials and a non-training setting. The results showed that some unprogrammed generalization to non-trained toys occurred. Conversely, siblings engaged in trained skills in a non-training setting (home) only following the experimenter's instructions to generalize. In both experiments, the siblings' overall engagement and physical proximity of play in training sessions increased significantly above baseline. This study extends previous research in that it includes additional stimulus and response generalization measures.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2000

Author dc:creator

• Randall, Domonique Y.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla
• Rosales Ruíz, Jesús
• Smith, Richard

• Autistic children -- Family relationships
• Behavior modification
• play
• Brothers and sisters
• trained interaction
• communication
• skills acquisition
• training sessions

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Randall, Domonique Y.
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 45225926
untcat: b2235857
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2507/
ark: ark:/67531/metadc2507

OAI identifier oai:identifier

info:ark/67531/metadc2507