Teaching Children with Autism Three Different Questions

Children with autism often exhibit deficits in question-asking. This study replicated and extended Williams, Donley, and Keller.s (2000) training package: a modeling and reinforcement procedure to teach the use of 3 different questions about hidden objects. Two boys, aged 13 and 12, with primary diagnoses of autism, participated. A multiple baseline design across questions was used. Both children learned to ask all three questions: .What.s that?. .Can I see (item name)?. and .Can I have (item name)?. Question-asking generalized to novel locations, people, and stimulus materials with minimal additional training. These results support the efficacy of this training package as an efficient way to teach children with autism to ask questions about objects in their environment.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2003

Author dc:creator

• Cramer, Heather

Contributors dc:contributor

• Glenn, Sigrid S., 1939-
• Ellis, Janet
• Vaidya, Manish

• Autistic children -- Education.
• Questioning.
• autism
• question-asking
• modeling
• reinforcement
• hidden objects

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Cramer, Heather
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 54438719
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4427/
ark: ark:/67531/metadc4427

OAI identifier oai:identifier

info:ark/67531/metadc4427