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| Autism | 1 |
| Behavior Change | 1 |
| Children | 1 |
| Exceptional Child Research | 1 |
| Extinction (Psychology) | 1 |
| Imitation | 1 |
| Learning Processes | 1 |
| Operant Conditioning | 1 |
| Reinforcement | 1 |
| Stimulus Generalization | 1 |
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| B.C. Journal of Special… | 1 |
Author
| Woods, Thomas S. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedWoods, Thomas S. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1978
Two autistic boys, ages 6 and 10 years, whose imitative responding was functionally inaccurate and whose performance generalized poorly, were trained to imitate accurately using a reinforcement-extinction strategy. (DLS)
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Children, Exceptional Child Research
