"A Support for Enhancing Verbal Behavior in a Child with Autism: The Effects of Choice-making of Activities"
ISHIHARA Sachiko, AOKI Chigoko & MOCHIZUKI Akira
last update: 20151223
A Support for Enhancing Verbal Behavior in a Child with Autism: The Effects of Choice-making of Activities
ISHIHARA Sachiko, AOKI Chigoko & MOCHIZUKI Akira
Abstract:
The purpose of the present study was to examine whether the opportunity to choose activities
increased verbal requests and the duration of engaging in activities in a child with autism who had
some speech but no mand. After baseline sessions, the child was taught to choose one of several
photographs that depicted various activities, and was required to make a verbal request for the
object used in the activity in the photograph that the child chose. The rate of verbal requests and
the duration of engaging in the activity increased in sessions in which choice-making was allowed,
compared to baseline and test sessions without choice opportunities. The results were discussed
from the viewpoint of conditioned establishing operations (Michael, 1982).
Keywords: child with autism, choice, mand, conditioned establishing operation
REV: 20151223