Teaching verbal operant and requirements to discrete trial teachin in children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD)

Author(s)

Bárbara Guerra

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Bauru. 2016-01-13.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências. Bauru
• Defense date: 2015-07-27
• Advisor: Ana Cláudia Moreira Almeida Verdu

Abstract

Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have significant deficits in many behaviors, and among them verbal behavior. Considering the social damage that the absence of language causes for this population, as dependence and restriction of access to regular education, teachin verbal operant is required. However, the acquisition of verbal operant through systematic and programmed learning requires prerequisites as follows instruction and imitation. Thus it is also necessary to plan structured teaching conditions for learning such repertories. This paper is organized in three studies. Study 01 aimed to carry out a survey of the literature on teaching and autism procedures at The Analysis of Verbal Behavior from the term [autism]. As general results, the study I found that teaching procedures aimed mostly teaching verbal operant for single exemplar instruction (SEI) to acquire mand and echoic. Most the participants were between three and six years old, had a repertoire of one to two operants in acquisition, and learned the target behavior studies. Study 02 aimed to teach operative prerequisites for two boys of five and seven years with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, and assess the effects of the acquisition on behavior incompatible with learning, such as stereoty and inappropriate behavior. Participants had their expanded prerequisites repertories, with a decreating need for help and demonstrated a reduction in the emission of competing answers to teaching. Study 03 taught audio-visual matching, echoic, tact and mand for multiple exemplar instruction (MEI) for two participants. The results showed that after the MEI children began to issue vocal verbal responses than in relation to the initial condition of education. Thus, the study 03 discusses the effectiveness of teaching verbal operant per multiple exemplar instruction in people with ASD and their generative capacity of new verbal repertoires (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 13/13028-0 - Prerequisite skills for acquisition of repertoire of repeating words, label and order objects
• Grantee: Barbara Trevizan Guerra
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master