Consideration of Both Discriminated and Generalized Responding When Teaching Children with Autism Abduction Prevention Skills.

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.

SUBMITTER: Levesque-Wolfe MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8149552 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature