The Effects of Parent Training on the Amount and Variety of Food Consumed By a Child with Autism.

The current study assessed the effectiveness of a training package, delivered in the form of a manual, to teach a parent to increase the variety and amount of food consumed by her son. The participant was a 5-year-old boy with Pervasive Developmental Disorder and limited food consumption. A changing criterion design across two variables, variety of food and quantity of food, was used. Results were that the parent who used the manual, with limited assistance from the experimenter, did succeed in increasing food variety and quantity of target foods.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2004

Author dc:creator

• VanKirk, Tessa Schreiber

Contributors dc:contributor

• Rosales Ruíz, Jesús
• Glenn, Sigrid S., 1939-
• Ellis, Janet

• Autistic children -- Behavior modification.
• Food preferences.
• Parenting -- Study and teaching.
• parent training
• food variety
• food consumption
• changing criterion design
• autism

Statement dc:rights

• Use restricted to UNT Community
• Copyright
• VanKirk, Tessa Schreiber
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 55804340
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4447/
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OAI identifier oai:identifier

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