Jeremy Grimshaw, Liz Shirran, Ruth Thomas, G Mowatt et al.
BACKGROUND: Increasing recognition of the failure to translate research findings into practice has led to greater awareness of the importance of using active dissemination and implementation strategies. Although there is a growing body of research evidence about the effectiveness of different strate...
Murray Sidman, Constance K. Wynne, Russell W. Maguire, Thomas R. E. Barnes
Three adult subjects were taught a set of two-choice simultaneous discriminations, with three positive and three negative stimuli; all possible combinations of positive and negative stimuli yielded nine different pairs. The discriminations were repeatedly reversed and rereversed, the former positive...
Elisabeth M. Kinney, Joseph Vedora, Robert Stromer
We examined the use of computer video models and video rewards to teach generative spelling to a child with an autism spectrum disorder. In Phase 1, Ana viewed video models of her teacher writing target words. After Ana wrote the words correctly, she watched videos of play routines unique to each tr...
Karin Lifter, Beth Sulzer‐Azároff, Stephen R. Anderson, Glynnis Edwards Cowdery
The purpose of this study was to determine whether three preschool children with autism or autistic-like behaviors would learn and generalize pretend play activities targeted at two different play levels—a developmentally appropriate (DA) level and an age appropriate (AA) leve—-differently. The chil...
Donald S. Blough
Andressa Sleiman, Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir, Aud Kielland Elnes, Nicholas A. Gage et al.
Researchers have extensively studied performance feedback in the past 40 years. In organizational behavior management (OBM), feedback is a popular intervention component that can effectively increase and maintain performance across settings and target behaviors. The purpose of this meta-analysis is ...
Merrick S. Fallah, Mateen Shaikh, Binod Neupane, Daniel Rusiecki et al.
OBJECTIVE: Irritability is common in pediatric autism spectrum disorder (ASD) patients. This can have major implications in child development, receptivity to behavioral therapy, as well as child and caregiver well-being. A systematic review and network meta-analysis were conducted to assess the effi...
R. Christopher Sheldrick, James C. Benneyan, Ivy Giserman Kiss, Margaret J. Briggs‐Gowan et al.
BACKGROUND: The accuracy of any screening instrument designed to detect psychopathology among children is ideally assessed through rigorous comparison to 'gold standard' tests and interviews. Such comparisons typically yield estimates of what we refer to as 'standard indices of diagnostic accuracy',...
M. D. Rutherford, Nikolaus F. Troje
Biological motion is easily perceived by neurotypical observers when encoded in point-light displays. Some but not all relevant research shows significant deficits in biological motion perception among those with ASD, especially with respect to emotional displays. We tested adults with and without A...
Daniel J. Hruschka, Shirajum Munira, Khaleda Jesmin, Joseph Hackman et al.
The many tools that social and behavioral scientists use to gather data from their fellow humans have, in most cases, been honed on a rarefied subset of humanity: highly educated participants with unique capacities, experiences, motivations, and social expectations. Through this honing process, rese...
Gina Green, Zuilma Gabriela Sigurðardóttir, Richard R. Saunders
In two experiments, adult subjects completed match-to-sample training and testing to establish four equivalence classes of four figures each. Then the subjects were taught one three-position sequence consisting of one stimulus from Class 1, one from Class 2, and one from Class 3. Inclusion of Class ...
Patty Leijten, G. J. Meléndez‐Torres, Frances Gardner
BACKGROUND: Programs to support parents are the recommended strategy to reduce disruptive child behavior problems. Efforts have been made to demonstrate which program components (i.e., clusters of techniques taught) increase program effects, but these methods fail to account for the fact that compon...
Samuel Messick, Donald L. Alderman, William H. Angoff, Ann Jungeblut et al.
Louis J. Kruger
ABSTRACT Previous research has neglected to examine possible antecedents to self-efficacy in problem solving among school staff. In the current study, the relationship between social support and self-efficacy in problem solving was investigated at 27 elementary schools. Participants were 125 teacher...
Deborah M. Riby, Hannah Kirk, Mary Hanley, Leigh M. Riby
BACKGROUND: The developmental disorder Williams syndrome (WS) is characterised by a distinctive cognitive profile and an intriguing social phenotype. Individuals with the disorder are often highly social engaging with familiar and unfamiliar people and once in an interaction they often show subtle a...