Manding for Information Maintained by Social Reinforcement: A Comparison of Prompting Procedures
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Manding for information maintained by social reinforcement (i.e., another person answering a question posed by the speaker) may help improve the social skills of individuals with autism.In the present study, an adapted alternating treatments design was implemented to compare the efficacy of echoic and textual prompts to teach three students with autism (ages 8-15) to ask questions related to a pre-selected topic of conversation (i.e., food, games, school).Participants were first required to answer questions related to the three topics to determine if accurate responses were within their repertoire.This was followed by exposure to both textual and echoic prompts with a prompt delay to ask relevant questions to the experimenter.Generalization probes were then conducted with a peer, and follow-up probes were conducted at two and three weeks following training.Results indicate echoic prompts resulted in learning with fewer trials to criterion across all participants.Limitations and implications for future studies are discussed.
Author: Matthew G. Swerdan
Institution: Youngstown State University
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2735036846