Department of Psychology, University of the Pacific.
Department of Psychology, Western New England University.
J Appl Behav Anal. 2021 Jan;54(1):217-230. doi: 10.1002/jaba.770. Epub 2020 Sep 28.
Previous research has shown that responding to the appropriate and problematic speech of individuals diagnosed with developmental disabilities with interested and uninterested listener responses, respectively, can promote more appropriate conversational engagement. However, Fisher et al. (2013) also responded to appropriate speech with access to preferred conversational topics. This study examined the influence of listener interest on the problematic speech of 8 participants and tested the additive effects of (Study 1) and participant preference for (Study 2) delivering preferred topics as reinforcement for appropriate speech. Interventions were equally effective with or without arranging access to preferred topics, but a majority of participants demonstrated a preference for intervention with contingent access to preferred topics. Caregivers and speech-language pathologists rated the intervention procedures as acceptable and changes in participants' speech satisfactory.
先前的研究表明，分别用感兴趣和不感兴趣的听众反应来回应被诊断为发育障碍的个体的恰当和有问题的言语，可以促进更恰当的对话参与。然而，Fisher 等人（2013）也对合适的言语做出了回应，提供了他们喜欢的对话主题。本研究考察了听众兴趣对 8 名参与者有问题的言语的影响，并测试了（研究 1）提供参与者喜欢的话题作为对恰当言语的强化的附加效果，以及（研究 2）参与者对提供喜欢的话题的偏好的附加效果。无论是否安排获得喜欢的话题，干预都是同样有效的，但大多数参与者都表现出对有条件获得喜欢的话题的干预的偏好。照顾者和言语语言病理学家对干预程序的评价是可以接受的，参与者言语的变化也是令人满意的。
