Teaching adolescents with autism to describe a problem and request assistance during simulated vocational tasks

Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 826-833

  Dotto Fojut, Kim M ^a,b   Reeve, Kenneth F ^a   Townsend, Dawn B ^b   Progar, Patrick R ^a  

^a CALDWELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Institute for Educational Achievement   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Graduated guidance; Script fading; Scripts; Vocational skills

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CASE REPORT; CHILD; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING; VOCATION; WORK CAPACITY; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 78650684083     PISSN: 17509467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rasd.2010.09.012     Document Type: Article

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