Rajinder Koul, Ralf W. Schlosser, Sherry Sancibrian
Individuals with little or no functional speech as a result of autism spectrum disorders frequently rely on aided and unaided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) symbols and signs to augment or replace natural speech. This has led investigators to identify the variables that are respons...
Md. Mustafizur Rahman, S M Ferdous, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Autism is a disorder of neural development which affects about one in every 150 kids on average. One of the major complexities regarding autistic children in social communication is the speech disorder. The problems related to speech disorder fall into different categories and unintelligibility in s...
Anika Anwar, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, S M Ferdous, Samiul Alam Anik et al.
Autism is a complex developmental disability that typically appears during the first three years of life. This is the result of a neurological disorder that affects the functioning of human brain. Children diagnosed with autism often are self-absorbed and seem to exist in a private world where they ...
Tami L. Galensky, Raymond G. Miltenberger, Jason M. Stricker, Matthew Garlinghouse
This study utilized descriptive assessment methods to develop hypotheses regarding the function of mealtime behavior problems for three typically developing children. Functional treatment was evaluated in the natural setting with caregivers as change agents. Overall, results of the descriptive asses...
Terry W. Belke, Stephanie Hancock
Six male albino rats were placed in running wheels and exposed to a fixed-interval 30-s schedule of lever pressing that produced either a drop of sucrose solution or the opportunity to run for a fixed duration as reinforcers. Each reinforcer type was signaled by a different stimulus. In Experiment 1...
Stuart Marcovitch, Philip David Zelazo, Mark A. Schmuckler
Abstract The A‐not‐B error (Piaget, 1954), which occurs when infants search perseveratively on reversal trials in a delayed‐response task, is one of the most widely studied phenomena in developmental psychology. Nonetheless, the effect of A‐trial experience on the probability and magnitude of this e...
Mustafizur Rahman, S M Ferdous, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Anika Anwar
Purpose – Speech disorder is one of the most common problems found with autistic children. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the introduction of computer‐based interactive games along with the traditional therapies in order to help improve the speech of autistic children.
Md. Saiful Malak, Umesh Sharma, Joanne Deppeler
This study examined the relationships between primary schoolteachers’ attitudes, efficacy beliefs and perceived support and their behavioural intentions in regard to teaching students who display inappropriate behaviour in regular classrooms. Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) was used to gui...
Karen Howard, Georgiana Shick Tryon
This study investigated the relationship of depressive symptomatology to type of classroom placement in a sample of adolescents with learning disabilities who attended an urban public high school. Fifty-two students, half of whom were in self-contained classrooms and half of whom were in general edu...
Hayley Neimy, Martha Peláez, Katerina Monlux, Jacqueline N. Carrow et al.
Infant siblings of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis (i.e., infants at risk of ASD) are excellent candidates for early interventions based on the principles of applied behavior analysis. This study replicates and extends behavioral research using contingent social reinforceme...
Lucas Couto de Carvalho, Letícia dos Santos, Alceu Regaço, Thiago Braga Barbosa et al.
The present study investigated the effects of fixed-ratio (FR) and variable-ratio (VR) reinforcement schedules on patterns of cooperative responding in pairs of rats. Experiment 1 arranged FR 1, FR 10, and VR 10 schedules to establish cooperative responding (water delivery depended on the joint resp...
Nienke Peters‐Scheffer, Robert Didden, Hubert Korzilius, Peter Sturmey
Early intensive behavioral intervention is generally effective for children with autism spectrum disorder but is associated with variability in treatment outcome and quality of treatment delivery may contribute to this. This study examined the relationship between therapist personality, attitude tow...
Karola Dillenburger, Caleb Coyle
The term “education for all” in the context of inclusive schooling describes the aim that children with identified special/additional needs are fully included in education together with their typically developing peers. However, this is easier said than done as there are few easy‐to‐use methods that...
Erik Arntzen, Richard K. Nartey
The present experiment investigated the effects of preliminary training with pictorial stimuli on the subsequent formation of three 5-member equivalence classes (A➔B➔C➔D➔E) in 84 university students assigned to seven groups of 12. In the Abstract (ABS) group, all stimuli were abstract shapes. In the...
Ana María Alderete
En este artículo se presenta el modelo de regresión logística, apropiado para predecir una variable categórica dicotómica. Esta situación es muy común en la investigación psicológica y en otras disciplinas de las ciencias sociales. Este modelo tiene ventajas sobre el análisis discriminante al no req...