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Regina A Carroll1, Tiffany Kodak2
1Department of Psychology, West Virginia University, Life Sciences Room 1232, 53 Campus Drive, Morgantown, WV 26506-6040 USA.
Abstract:
We evaluated the effects of instructive feedback on the variability of intraverbal responses for two children with autism spectrum disorder. Specifically, we used an adapted alternating treatments design to compare participants' novel responses and response combinations during an intraverbal category program across conditions with and without instructive feedback. During instructive feedback, secondary targets were presented during the consequence event of the learning trial and consisted of a therapist's model of response variability. The results showed that participants engaged in more novel response combinations during instructive feedback conditions. We discussed the clinical implications of these results as well as areas for future research.
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