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Developing Conversation Skills For Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders, Kimberley Muldoon
Developing Conversation Skills For Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders, Kimberley Muldoon
Masters Theses, 2010-2019
The purpose of this study is to explore and expand the literature on strategies to use to develop conversational skills for individuals with ASD. Children with ASD have difficulties creating and maintaining conversations and to participate in the community and its members, conversational skills are necessary to succeed. This study attempts to answer whether video modeling is an effective strategy alone for teaching social conversation skills; if video modeling is effective for increasing the length of conversation units; if external reinforcers are necessary to maintain social conversation skills; and if participants are able to generalize responses to novel topics during …