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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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Falcomata, Terry S.; Wacker, David P.; Ringdahl, Joel E.; Vinquist, Kelly; Dutt, Anuradha – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2013
The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the generalization of mands during functional communication training (FCT) and sign language training across functional contexts (i.e., positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement). A secondary purpose was to evaluate a training procedure based on stimulus control to teach manual signs. During…
Descriptors: Generalization, Sign Language, Communication Skills, Positive Reinforcement