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Cortney DeBiase; Jaime A. DeQuinzio; Ethan Brewer; Bridget A. Taylor – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2024
We used an adapted alternating treatments design to compare the effects of traditional and embedded discrete trial teaching (DTT) with adults with autism. Traditional DTT consisted of the instructor presenting a discriminative stimulus to start each trial ("Point to___"), implementing a prompt (i.e., manual guidance), and providing…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Teaching Methods, Prompting
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Erin L. Sainsbury; Tina M. Sidener; Catherine Taylor-Santa; Kenneth F. Reeve; David W. Sidener – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2024
We evaluated the effects of a discrimination training procedure for establishing praise as a reinforcer for three children with autism spectrum disorder. After establishing two praise words as discriminative stimuli and two nonsense words as S-deltas, we evaluated whether the stimuli then functioned as reinforcers by presenting each stimulus as a…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Training, Learning Processes, Positive Reinforcement