Levesque-Wolfe MA, Rodriguez NM, Niemeier-Beck JJ. Consideration of Both Discriminated and Generalized Responding When Teaching Children with Autism Abduction Prevention Skills.
Behav Anal Pract 2021;
14:396-409. [PMID:
34150455 DOI:
10.1007/s40617-020-00541-9]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
We taught three children with autism how to respond to abduction lures presented by strangers. We then tested undesirable generalization of the safety response to matched instructions to leave by a familiar adult. Following training, all three participants engaged in the safety response across both strangers and familiar adults. Thus, we evaluated a set of procedures for establishing discriminated responding. Appropriate responding to instructions to leave by strangers versus familiar adults was achieved only after discrimination training. Discriminated responding occurred across a novel setting and maintained across 3 months; however, performance during stimulus generalization probes within community settings was variable.
Supplementary Information
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40617-020-00541-9.
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