Increasing the Social Behavior of Young Children with Autism Using Their Obsessive Behaviors

Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 300-308

  Baker, Mary J ^a   Koegel, Robert L ^a   Koegel, Lynn Kern ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

autism; generalization measures; obsessions; social behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032423404     PISSN: 15407969     EISSN: 21692408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2511/rpsd.23.4.300     Document Type: Article

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