Advisor(s)

Jason C. Bourret

Contributor(s)

Susan Langer, Cammarie Johnson

Date of Award

2010

Date Accepted

5-2010

Degree Grantor

Northeastern University

Degree Level

M.S.

Degree Name

Master of Science

Department or Academic Unit

Bouvé College of Health Sciences. Department of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology.

Keywords

psychology, behavioral, autism, mass trials, response acquisition, training trials

Subject Categories

Autistic children, Response to intervention (Learning disabled children)

Disciplines

Child Psychology

Abstract

We examined effects of increasing exposure to training trials on response acquisition. Academic objectives for 2 participants at a residential school for children with autism were selected for inclusion in the study due to a lack of progress. During baseline, teaching sessions were conducted once or twice a day, five days a week until response acquisition was not improving. Using a multiple baseline design, the participants encountered each objective in the treatment condition in a staggered design. During the treatment condition teaching sessions occurred multiple times in one hour during the day, five days a week. Results indicate increasing exposure to training trials increased the rate of response acquisition.

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Rights Holder

Melissa A. Ezold


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