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An Evaluation Of Demand Functions For Attention And Food In Children With Autism, Bistra K. Bogoev
An Evaluation Of Demand Functions For Attention And Food In Children With Autism, Bistra K. Bogoev
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The dominant approach to treating social dysfunction in individuals with autism views that dysfunction as a skill deficit. However, another plausible interpretation is that social dysfunction in some individuals arises from motivational deficits. The proposed study presents a method to assess motivational deficits for social attention in individuals with autism. By borrowing methods from behavioral economics, we assessed the essential value for social attention and compared it to the essential value for food.
Five individuals diagnosed with autism were included in the project. First, we assessed preference for food by using paired-preference assessment. To identify preference hierarchy for attention, we …