Effects of exemplar training in exclusion responding on auditory-visual discrimination tasks with children with autism

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 507-524

  Carr, Deborah ^a,b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Welsh Ctr for Lrng Disabil ARU   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Exclusion based learning; Generalization; Multiple exemplar training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINFORCEMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; WALES;

EID: 2342475216     PISSN: 00218855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2003.36-507     Document Type: Article

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