Development of a Generalized Deictic Framing Repertoire in an Autistic Child

The current study evaluated the effectiveness of relational training on the establishment of three deictic framing repertoires (I/You, Now/Then, Here/There) in an eight-year-old autistic boy using a multiple baseline across behaviors design. Relational training was effective in establishing all three directly trained and mutually entailed deictic relations, while differences were observed in transformation of stimulus function. Results support previous findings with the systematic development of multiple types of perspective taking repertoires with the same participant.