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Amy S Polick1, James E Carr, Nicole M Hanney.
Abstract
Descriptive praise has been recommended widely as an important teaching tactic for children with autism, despite the absence of published supporting evidence. We compared the effects of descriptive and general praise on the acquisition and maintenance of intraverbal skills with 2 children with autism. The results showed slight advantages of descriptive praise in teaching efficiency in the majority of comparisons; however, these effects dissipated over time.Entities:
Keywords: autism; behavior-specific praise; descriptive praise; intraverbals; praise; reinforcement; verbal behavior
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Year: 2012 PMID: 23060672 PMCID: PMC3469295 DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2012.45-593
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Appl Behav Anal ISSN: 0021-8855