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An Evaluation Of Preference For Modeling Interventions, Kaneen B. Geiger
An Evaluation Of Preference For Modeling Interventions, Kaneen B. Geiger
Masters Theses
Video modeling is an instructional technique demonstrated to effectively increase social skills, academic skills, daily living skills and play skills of children with autism. There are several hypotheses for why video modeling is effective. One hypothesis is that children with autism prefer watching videos to looking at people, thereby enhancing motivation and making attending to the video model automatically reinforcing, however, preference for video has not been experimentally examined. This study assessed participants' preference for either video modeling or in vivo modeling using a concurrent-chains arrangement. None of the three participants showed a preference for either video modeling or in …
Identifying The Most Effective Stimulus To Promote Wayfinding In Elders With Dementia, Allison A. Jay
Identifying The Most Effective Stimulus To Promote Wayfinding In Elders With Dementia, Allison A. Jay
Masters Theses
When nursing home residents with dementia experience difficulty locating their bedroom, it can create problems for other residents and staff. This study investigated the ability of four elders with severe dementia to recognize various self-referent stimuli (i.e., young adulthood photograph, middle adulthood photograph, current photograph, and printed name). Two of the three participants who were able to complete the assessment recognized their photographs from earlier in life and their printed names but were not able to recognize their current photograph. These two residents then participated in an intervention in which the recognized stimuli were posted outside their bedroom doorway during …
Generalization Of Mands For Information Across Establishing Operations, Sarah A. Lechago
Generalization Of Mands For Information Across Establishing Operations, Sarah A. Lechago
Masters Theses
This study sought to extend the developing literature on teaching mands for information by systematically assessing whether they generalize across different EOs. Three children with autism were taught to perform multiple behavior chains, three of which included a common response topography (e.g., "Where is the spoon?") used for different purposes. An interrupted-behavior-chain procedure was used to contrive the EO for each mand. After a mand for information was taught under one EO, the remaining chains were interrupted to determine whether the mand had generalized across EOs. For all three participants, mands for information generalized across EOs. For one participants, a …