Akers Jessica S, Higbee Thomas S, Gerencser Kristina R, Pellegrino Azure J
Utah State University.
J Appl Behav Anal. 2018 Jul;51(3):553-570. doi: 10.1002/jaba.474. Epub 2018 May 14.
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have deficits in social skills and may avoid engaging in play activities with typically developing peers. The purpose of this study was to identify the utility of activity schedules, with embedded scripts, to teach three children with ASD to play a complex social game. Specifically, children with ASD were taught to play hide-and-seek with typically developing peers. Once the activity schedules were introduced, participants began engaging in independent hide-and-seek behaviors. A secondary purpose of this study was to systematically fade the activity schedules to the least intrusive version. We faded all of the scripts and the majority of activity schedule components for the three participants. Participants continued to play hide-and-seek with the faded versions of the schedules in a novel environment and 2 weeks after treatment concluded.
患有自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的儿童通常在社交技能方面存在缺陷，可能会避免与发育正常的同龄人进行游戏活动。本研究的目的是确定带有嵌入式脚本的活动时间表在教导三名患有ASD的儿童玩复杂社交游戏方面的效用。具体而言，教导患有ASD的儿童与发育正常的同龄人玩捉迷藏。一旦引入活动时间表，参与者就开始进行独立的捉迷藏行为。本研究的第二个目的是将活动时间表系统地淡化到侵入性最小的版本。我们为三名参与者淡化了所有脚本和大部分活动时间表组件。参与者在新环境中以及治疗结束后2周继续使用淡化后的时间表版本玩捉迷藏。
