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BEHAVIOR ANALYST
Volume 39, Issue 2, Pages 319-331Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s40614-015-0046-1
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Social referencing; Autism; Operant analysis
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During social referencing, infants as young as 6 months of age look to others when confronted with unfamiliar or unexpected events in the environment and then respond to these events based on affective cues of the parent or caregiver (e.g., smiling and frowning). Social referencing is important for early communication and language development. Unfortunately, social referencing repertoires are limited or completely lacking in children with autism. Despite these documented social deficits, little research has focused on ameliorating social referencing deficits. The purpose of this paper is to present a behavior-analytic conceptualization of social referencing and the implications for ameliorating social referencing deficits of children with autism.
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