Western New England University.
J Appl Behav Anal. 2020 Jan;53(1):402-421. doi: 10.1002/jaba.600. Epub 2019 Jul 22.
Better conversational skills correspond to a higher quality of life for adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In this study, we taught vocal-verbal responses discriminated by compound arrangements of concealed conversation partner mands to two college students with ASD. Participants learned to engage in self-questioning about their conversation partner's behavior and to reinforce three concealed mands for termination of an aversive conversation scenario. We assessed generalization to conversation probes with trained confederates and to interactions with untrained conversational partners (e.g., peers, professors). Finally, we collected peer ratings of the social validity of changes in conversational behavior as well as participants' ratings of study goals, procedures, and outcomes.
对于被诊断患有自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 的成年人来说，更好的会话技巧对应着更高的生活质量。在这项研究中，我们向两名患有 ASD 的大学生教授了通过隐藏会话伙伴的复合指令来区分的声音语言反应。参与者学会了对他们的对话伙伴的行为进行自我提问，并加强了三个隐藏的指令，以终止不愉快的对话场景。我们评估了与受过训练的同伙进行的会话探测以及与未经训练的会话伙伴（例如同伴、教授）的互动的泛化。最后，我们收集了同伴对会话行为变化的社会有效性的评分，以及参与者对研究目标、程序和结果的评分。
