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Teaching Prerequisite Perspective-Taking Skills to Children with Autism

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: It is well documented that the acquisition of a perspective taking ability leads to the development of important social and communication skills. The present study sought to facilitate a prerequisite skill to perspective taking in three individuals with autism. Participants viewed pictures of a known individual facing left or right looking at an object. We projected arrows from the eyes of the person in the picture as visual prompts (three varying lengths). Two of three participants were able to select the appropriate discriminative stimuli without prompts. During maintenance tests, only one of three participants maintained accurate responding above 50%. The implications of these findings to the development of a perspective-taking repertoire from a behavior-analytic orientation are discussed.

Source: International Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences

Author: Adam D. Hahs

Institution: Arizona State University

Language: English

Topic: Autism Spectrum Disorder Research

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W864074431

FWCI: 0.493

Cites: 17

Cited by: 4

Related to: 10