dc.contributor.advisor | Harvey, A. Celeste | |
dc.contributor.author | Adriaenssens, Nicole | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-08T15:07:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-10-08T15:07:04Z | |
dc.date.created | 2019-07 | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-07 | |
dc.date.submitted | July 2019 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11141/2952 | |
dc.description | Thesis (M.S.) - Florida Institute of Technology, 2019. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | One of the earliest and most noticeable characteristics of children with Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is impaired eye contact. Difficulty with making eye
contact presents concerns for children regarding academic, social, and safety
skills—for instance, failing to respond to a teacher calling a child’s name to give
instructions, looking at a peer during play, or orienting toward an adult speaker
warning the child of a risky situation. Currently published research on increasing
responding to name with eye contact has primarily involved separate and combined
procedures such as physical prompting, visual prompting, differential
reinforcement, and overcorrection. The current study evaluated the effects of an
auditory orienting response using a variety of short, non-social sounds within
acceptable levels of auditory perception to elicit eye contact. Non-social sounds are
those that are made by an inanimate object, such as a phone ringing or a recording
of a car horn. When eye contact occurred following presentation of the non-social auditory stimulus, the experimenter used respondent conditioning to pair the
presentation of the participant’s name with a highly preferred stimulus. This
procedure was used as a supplement to differential reinforcement to increase eye
contact in four young children with ASD. Results suggest the current procedure
may be an effective way to teach young children with ASD to make eye contact in
response to a name call. | en_US |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright held by author. | en_US |
dc.title | Using an Elicited Orienting Response and Respondent Conditioning to Increase Eye Contact in Response to a Name Call in Children with Autism | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.date.updated | 2019-09-17T18:49:59Z | |
dc.embargo.terms | 2020-07-01 | |
dc.embargo.lift | 2020-07-01 | |
thesis.degree.name | Masters of Science in Applied Behavior Analysis and Organizational Behavior Management | en_US |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | en_US |
thesis.degree.discipline | Applied Behavior Analysis & Organizational Behavior Management | en_US |
thesis.degree.department | Behavior Analysis | en_US |
thesis.degree.grantor | Florida Institute of Technology | en_US |
dc.type.material | text | |