Effects of peer-mediated social initiations and prompting/reinforcement procedures on the social behavior of autistic children
- 1 March 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Vol. 9 (1), 41-54
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01531291
Abstract
Peer-mediated social initiations and prompting/reinforcement procedures were evaluated (in training and generalization sessions) as interventions for increasing the positive social behavior of four autistic children. During base-line, the peer trainer made few social initiations and did not prompt or socially reinforce subjects. For two subjects, baseline was followed by social initiation intervention, and for the other two, baseline was followed by prompting and social reinforcement. Both interventions produced dramatic and comparable increases in positive social behavior in training sessions. Post-treatment responding was not observed for either intervention. When interventions terminated in a second baseline period, the subjects' behavior returned to the level observed during the initial baseline. The subjects were then exposed to the intervention procedure they had not yet experienced. Again, there were positive and comparable behavior changes in the treatment setting, but no increase in positive social behavior was observed during generalization assessment.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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