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JOURNAL OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
Volume 40, Issue 4, Pages 755-759Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2007.755-759
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generalized imitation; affect; autism
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Imitation is an essential skill in the acquisition of language and communication skills. An initial phase in teaching young children with autism to engage in appropriate affective responding may be to teach the imitation of facial models. Using a multiple baseline across participants design, imitation training (consisting of modeling, prompting, differential reinforcement, and error correction) was introduced successively across 3 participants. Low and inconsistent rates of imitation of facial models were observed in baseline. All of the participants learned to imitate some of the facial models presented during imitation training, but only 2 of the 3 participants demonstrated generalized responding across stimuli. DESCRIPTORS: generalized imitation, affect, autism.
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