Guzinski Erin M, Cihon Traci M, Eshleman John
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.
Anal Verbal Behav. 2012;28(1):101-10. doi: 10.1007/BF03393110.
This study was a systematic extension of Karmali, Greer, Nuzzulo-Gomez, Ross, and Rivera-Valdes (2005) and Ahearn, Clark, MacDonald, and Chung (2007). We investigated the effects of a tact correction procedure on stereotypic vocalizations in 4 children diagnosed with autism who ranged in age from 6 to 16 years. Participants had limited vocal verbal repertoires and were primarily dependent on prompts for the emission of appropriate vocalizations. A multiple-baseline design across participants was used. Data were collected on instances of stereotypic vocalizations and independent tacts during baseline conditions and on instances of stereotypic vocalizations, independent tacts, and echoic-tacts during intervention. Procedural integrity and social validity data were also obtained. The results indicated a decrease in stereotypic vocalizations for 3 of the 4 participants and a slight increase in appropriate vocal verbal behavior (i.e., tacting) for all participants. The study provides support for the use of tact correction procedures to decrease stereotypic vocalizations and increase appropriate vocalizations in children with autism.
本研究是对卡马利、格里尔、努祖洛 - 戈麦斯、罗斯和里维拉 - 巴尔德斯(2005年)以及阿赫恩、克拉克、麦克唐纳和钟(2007年)研究的系统扩展。我们调查了一种触觉纠正程序对4名被诊断为自闭症儿童刻板发声的影响,这些儿童年龄在6至16岁之间。参与者的言语发声能力有限,主要依赖提示来发出适当的声音。采用了跨参与者的多基线设计。在基线条件下收集了刻板发声和独立触觉的实例数据,在干预期间收集了刻板发声、独立触觉和回声触觉的实例数据。还获得了程序完整性和社会效度数据。结果表明,4名参与者中有3名的刻板发声减少,所有参与者的适当言语发声行为(即触觉)略有增加。该研究为使用触觉纠正程序减少自闭症儿童的刻板发声并增加适当发声提供了支持。