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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
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Halbur, Mary; Kodak, Tiffany; Williams, Xi'an; Reidy, Jessi; Halbur, Christopher – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2021
A portion of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have difficulty acquiring conditional discrimination. However, previous researchers suggested that the discrimination of nonverbal auditory stimuli may be acquired more efficiently (Eikeseth & Hayward, 2009; Uwer, et al., 2002). For example, a child may learn to touch a…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Discrimination Learning