| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 特殊教育學系碩士班 === 98 === The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the multisensory environment on the stereotypic behaviors of children with autism. Both subjects were studying in the special education class of eight-year-old severely autistic children. This research adopted the single subject research of ABM design. The subjects received experimental teaching three sessions per week, thirty minutes per session, for a total of four weeks. The independent variable was the multisensory environment. The dependent variable was the changes of subjects’ stereotypic behaviors. The experimental design of this study contained four phases, “the baseline phase”, “the intervention phase” , “the maintenance phase” and “the generalization phase”. Visual analysis was used for analyzing data, assisted with social validity analysis of teaching diary, video observation and interview notes.
The results of this research were as follows:
1. The multisensory environment intervention to improve the stereotypic behaviors of subjects with autism was immediately effective.
2. The multisensory environment intervention to improve the stereotypic behaviors of subjects with autism was maintained.
3. The multisensory environment intervention to improve the stereotypic behaviors of subjects with autism was generalized.
According to the findings of this study, some applications for the instructional activities and the further researches were recommended.
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