A progressive model for teaching children with autism to follow gaze shift
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis / Journal of Applied Behavioral Analysis
Published online on June 06, 2018
Abstract
---
- |2
Gunby, Rapp, Bottoni, Marchese and Wu (2017) taught three children with autism spectrum disorder to follow an instructor's gaze shift to select a specific item; however, Gunby et al. used different types of prompts with each participant. To address this limitation, we used a progressive training model for increasing gaze shift for three children with autism spectrum disorder. Results show that each participant learned to follow an adult's shift in gaze to make a correct selection. In addition, two participants displayed the skill in response to a parent's gaze shift and with only social consequences; however, the third participant required verbal instruction and tangible reinforcement to demonstrate the skill outside of training sessions.
- Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 694-701, Summer 2018.