Promoting the Emergence of Vocational Knowledge through Equivalence-Based Instruction with a Young Adult with Autism.

ABSTRACT: We sought to evaluate the efficacy of an equivalence-based instructional program to teach vocational information to a young adult. This work has the potential to aid in workplace or vocational programming to teach declarative information about employment settings. We directly reinforced a subset of relations [Employee names (A) to job titles (B) (A-B) and a job titles (B) to a job responsibilities (C) (B-C)] and tested for the untrained emergence of other relations [Employee names (A) to job responsibilities (C) (A-C) and job responsibilities (C) to employee names (A) (C-A)]. In a multiple baseline across employment settings, mastery was observed across trained and derived relations with implications for vocational training.

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SUBMITTER: Belisle J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10228887 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature