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ERIC Number: EJ987337
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 6
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ISSN: ISSN-0021-8855
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Using a Blocked-Trials Procedure to Teach Identity Matching to a Child with Autism
Slocum, Sarah K.; Miller, Sarah J.; Tiger, Jeffrey H.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, v45 n3 p619-624 Fall 2012
Children with autism may struggle in developing conditional discrimination repertoires. Saunders and Spradlin (1989, 1990, 1993) arranged "blocked" teaching trials in which they presented the same sample stimulus repeatedly across trials (in lieu of randomly alternating targets across trials) and then faded the number of trials in each block. We replicated the effects of this blocked-trials procedure in teaching identity matching to a child with autism and evaluated the necessity of fading. Arranging blocked trials facilitated the acquisition of identity matching, but fading the block size was not necessary to maintain discriminated performance. (Contains 1 figure.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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