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Consideration of Both Discriminated and Generalized Responding When Teaching Children with Autism Abduction
Megan A Levesque-Wolfe1, Nicole M Rodriguez1, Jessica J Niemeier-Beck1
1Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, NE 68198 Omaha, USA.
Abstract:
We taught three children with autism how to respond to abduction lures presented by strangers. We then tested undesirable generalization of the safety response to matched instructions to leave by a familiar adult. Following training, all three participants engaged in the safety response across both strangers and familiar adults. Thus, we evaluated a set of procedures for establishing discriminated responding. Appropriate responding to instructions to leave by strangers versus familiar adults was achieved only after discrimination training. Discriminated responding occurred across a novel setting and maintained across 3 months; however, performance during stimulus generalization probes within community settings was variable.
Supplementary Information:
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40617-020-00541-9.
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