Comparison of types of clues on functional play in children with autism spectrum disorder
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https://doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v9i7.4392Keywords:
Autism spectrum disorder; Photographic activities schedule; Verbal instruction; Modeling.Abstract
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) commonly present deficits in several repertoires, including play behavior. In the literature of Applied Behavior Analysis, there were studies, which investigated the effects of use of photographic activity schedule, with pictures portraying actions with toys, and other type of cues on the establishment of independent performance in children with ASD. Responding under the control of pictures was demonstrated through different levels of cues, such as verbal instructions and modeling. However, previous research did not isolate the effects of the cues. The current study had the goal of comparing the effects of two cues, verbal instruction and modeling, in two 10-year old children with ASD, and through an alternating treatments design, as to the establishment of actions with toys in the presence of pictures representing them. The interventions were effective to the development of independent performance in both children. In the case of one of them, differences were more evident, since the modeling cue was more efficient. For the other child, there were no differences in efficiency, considering the two cues. Stimulus control probes with different sequences of pictures presented, suggested the establishment of responding under the control of the pictures.
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