A preliminary analysis of teaching improvisation with the picture exchange communication system to children with
Julie M Marckel1, Nancy A Neef, Summer J Ferreri
1PAES, College of Education, The Ohio State University, 1945 N. High St., 367 Arps Hall, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
|April 11, 2006
Abstract:
Two young boys with autism who used the picture exchange communication system were taught to solve problems (improvise) by using descriptors (functions, colors, and shapes) to request desired items for which specific pictures were unavailable. The results of a multiple baseline across descriptors showed that training increased the number of improvised requests, and that these skills generalized to novel items, and across settings and listeners in the natural environment.
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