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A Treatment Package without Escape Extinction to Address Food Selectivity
Published on: August 21, 2015
Using high-probability foods to increase the acceptance of low-probability foods
Aimee E Meier1, Mitch J Fryling, Michele D Wallace
1Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles, California 90017, USA.
Abstract:
Studies have evaluated a range of interventions to treat food selectivity in children with autism and related developmental disabilities. The high-probability instructional sequence is one intervention with variable results in this area. We evaluated the effectiveness of a high-probability sequence using 3 presentations of a preferred food on increasing acceptance in a child with autism who refused a few specific foods. The high-probability sequence increased acceptance of 3 foods. We then systematically faded the intervention for 2 foods.
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