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Tracy L Lepper1, Anna Ingeborg Petursdottir, Barbara E Esch.
Abstract
We evaluated the effects of operant discrimination training (ODT) on the vocalizations of 3 boys with autism. We compared ODT to a stimulus-stimulus pairing (SSP) condition and a control condition in an adapted alternating-treatments design. ODT increased the target vocalizations of all participants compared to the control condition, and its effects were similar to SSP. All participants preferred ODT to SSP. © Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.Entities:
Keywords: autism; discrimination training; speech; stimulus-stimulus pairing; vocalizations
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24114228 DOI: 10.1002/jaba.55
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Appl Behav Anal ISSN: 0021-8855