Weyman Jennifer R, Imler Madison, Kelly Danielle A
Department of Special Education and Counseling, College of Education, California State University, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA.
Department of Special Education, College of Education, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2024 Sep 17;14(9):828. doi: 10.3390/bs14090828.
Prompt dependency is a common concern for individuals with developmental disabilities, particularly autism spectrum disorder. Previous research has shown that different interventions can be used to decrease prompt dependency. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of various treatments to decrease prompt dependency during functional communication training in the treatment of challenging behavior maintained by access to tangible items in a 16-year-old female diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Specifically, we compared the effects of differential reinforcement, vocal prompt fading, extended response intervals, and full physical prompts with a constant prompt delay to increase independent functional communication responses. The results of the study suggest that the prompt dependency treatment evaluation was efficacious in increasing independent functional communication responses and subsequently reducing challenging behavior to zero rates.
提示依赖是发育障碍患者，尤其是自闭症谱系障碍患者普遍关注的问题。先前的研究表明，可以采用不同的干预措施来减少提示依赖。本研究的目的是评估各种治疗方法在功能沟通训练中减少提示依赖的效果，该训练用于治疗一名16岁被诊断为自闭症谱系障碍的女性，其具有挑战性的行为通过获取有形物品得以维持。具体而言，我们比较了差别强化、语音提示消退、延长反应间隔以及固定提示延迟的完全身体提示对增加独立功能沟通反应的效果。研究结果表明，提示依赖治疗评估在增加独立功能沟通反应并随后将具有挑战性的行为减少到零发生率方面是有效的。
