Teaching children with autism to respond to and initiate bids for joint attention.

Content Provider	Europe PMC
Author	Taylor, Bridget A Hoch, Hannah
Editor	Wallace, Michele
Abstract	A multiple baseline design across 3 children with autism was used to assess the effects of prompting and social reinforcement to teach participants to respond to an adult's bid for joint attention and to initiate bids for joint attention. Participants were taught to respond to an adult's bid for joint attention by looking in the direction of an object at which the adult pointed, by making a comment about the object, and by looking back at the adult. Additional training and reinforcement were needed to teach the participants to initiate bids for joint attention. Findings are discussed in terms of the social relevance of teaching children with autism to respond to and initiate bids for joint attention.
Related Links	https://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC2521872&blobtype=pdf
ISSN	00218855
Volume Number	41
DOI	10.1901/jaba.2008.41-377
PubMed Central reference number	PMC2521872
Issue Number	3
PubMed reference number	18816976
Journal	J Appl Behav Anal
Language	English
Publisher	The Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Publisher Date	2008-01-01
Publisher Place	Bloomington, Indiana
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	autism joint attention social skills teaching language
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Philosophy Applied Psychology