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Download full textMcNeill, Brian; And Others – 1981
Eight autistic children and young adolescents (mean age 12.9 years) were compared to normal chronological age controls. Ss were required to discriminate briefly presented visual stimuli when they were preceded or followed by a visual noise mask and when they were not. The minimum stimulus exposure duration for criterion identification of unmasked…
Descriptors: Autism, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Stimuli
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Direct linkGraff, Richard B.; Green, Gina – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
Simple discriminations are involved in many functional skills; additionally, they are components of conditional discriminations (identity and arbitrary matching-to-sample), which are involved in a wide array of other important performances. Many individuals with severe disabilities have difficulty acquiring simple discriminations with standard…
Descriptors: Training Methods, Visual Discrimination, Severe Disabilities, Reinforcement
