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JOURNAL OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
Volume 41, Issue 3, Pages 377-391Publisher
JOURNAL APPL BEHAV ANAL
DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2008.41-377
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autism; joint attention; social skills; teaching language
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A multiple baseline design across 3 children with autism was used to assess the effects of prompting and social reinforcement to teach participants to respond to an adult's bid for joint attention and to initiate bids for joint attention. Participants were taught to respond to an adult's bid for joint attention by looking in the direction of an object at which the adult pointed, by making a comment about the object, and by looking back at the adult. Additional training and reinforcement were needed to teach the participants to initiate bids for joint attention. Findings are discussed in terms of the social relevance of reaching children with autism to respond to and initiate bids for joint attention.
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