Visual Discrimination Learning in Autistic, Autistic-Tending, Retarded, and Normal Children Using Within-Stimulus and Extra-Stimulus Prompting
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Authors
Grant, Kathleen M.
Issue Date
1977
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
Keywords
Autism , Extra-stimulus prompting , Within-stimulus , Visual discrimination
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Abstract
Visual Discriminations were taught to autistic, autistic-tending, retarded, and normal children by two different prompting procedures whose results were then compared. The extra-stimulus prompt involved the presentation of an added cue. This required the child to respond to both the prompt and the training stimulus. The within-stimulus prompt consisted of an exaggeration of the relevant component of the training stimulus and did not require the child to respond to multiple cues. The results indicated that (1) autistic children always required a prompt in order to learn the discriminations, (2) autistic-tending and trainable retarded children usually required a prompt, (3) autistic children usually fail when the extra-stimulus prompt was applied but usually did learn with the within-stimulus prompt, (4), in general, autistic-tending children performed better than autistic children in learning discriminations, and (5) normal children perform equally well with or without a prompt.
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Citation
K. Grant, "Visual Discrimination Learning in Autistic, Autistic-Tending, Retarded, and Normal Children Using Within-Stimulus and Extra-Stimulus Prompting", dissertation, School of Education, Univ. of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 1977.