GENERALIZATION TRAINING FOR IMPROVISATIONAL SKILLS USING A PICTURE EXCHANGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kirkpatrick, Jamie E.
Language:	English
Published:	The Ohio State University / OhioLINK 2011
Subjects:	Special Education
Online Access:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313422708

id	ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu1313422708
record_format	oai_dc
spelling	ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu13134227082021-08-03T06:03:33Z GENERALIZATION TRAINING FOR IMPROVISATIONAL SKILLS USING A PICTURE EXCHANGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Kirkpatrick, Jamie E. Special Education The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) can be a successful way for children who have language impairments to minimize communication difficulties (Mirenda & Erickson, 2000). Teaching improvisational skills can enhance the efficiency of PECS. The current study sought to replicate and extend the study by Marckel et al. (2006) on improvisation training. Procedures were modified to examine the extent to which training diverse exemplars from different stimulus classes concurrently (rather than sequentially, as in Marckel et al.) would facilitate generalization across descriptor classes. When the picture representing a desired item was unavailable, four children with ASD were taught to construct and exchange a sentence strip that contained an “I want” picture and descriptors corresponding to the desired item (e.g., “I want eat orange square” to request a cheese cracker). A multiple baseline design across participants demonstrated all participants generalized this skill across locations and listeners. Mixed results of multiple exemplar training on response generalization suggest this may be a promising strategy. Two participants generalized improvisational skills to request items that were not visible, demonstrating pure mands. Pure mand training was conducted with the remaining two participants by contriving motivation for preferred items and using a time-delay prompt. Results showed these procedures were effective in teaching participants to improvise when emitting pure mands. 2011-09-28 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313422708 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313422708 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
collection	NDLTD
language	English
sources	NDLTD
topic	Special Education
spellingShingle	Special Education Kirkpatrick, Jamie E. GENERALIZATION TRAINING FOR IMPROVISATIONAL SKILLS USING A PICTURE EXCHANGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
author	Kirkpatrick, Jamie E.
author_facet	Kirkpatrick, Jamie E.
author_sort	Kirkpatrick, Jamie E.
title	GENERALIZATION TRAINING FOR IMPROVISATIONAL SKILLS USING A PICTURE EXCHANGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
title_short	GENERALIZATION TRAINING FOR IMPROVISATIONAL SKILLS USING A PICTURE EXCHANGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
title_full	GENERALIZATION TRAINING FOR IMPROVISATIONAL SKILLS USING A PICTURE EXCHANGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
title_fullStr	GENERALIZATION TRAINING FOR IMPROVISATIONAL SKILLS USING A PICTURE EXCHANGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
title_full_unstemmed	GENERALIZATION TRAINING FOR IMPROVISATIONAL SKILLS USING A PICTURE EXCHANGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
title_sort	generalization training for improvisational skills using a picture exchange communication system
publisher	The Ohio State University / OhioLINK
publishDate	2011
url	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313422708
work_keys_str_mv	AT kirkpatrickjamiee generalizationtrainingforimprovisationalskillsusingapictureexchangecommunicationsystem
_version_	1719430172134866944

GENERALIZATION TRAINING FOR IMPROVISATIONAL SKILLS USING A PICTURE EXCHANGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

Similar Items