A Study of Applying Relationship Development Intervention to Improve the Social Referencing Ability on the Children with Autism

• Main Authors: HSIAO YEN HUANG, 黃筱晏
• Other Authors: JUN HUAWEI
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/k26veq

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 特殊教育學系碩士班 === 98 === This study uses relationship development intervention (RDI) on the children with autism and focus on how this program will help these children to improve their social referencing ability. The methodology of this research is a multiple probes design across behaviors of single-subject experimental design. The independent variable is RDI, and the dependent variables are the percentage of social referencing performance passing which includes action, face, and eye referencing. The participants of this research are two children with severe autism who attends to special education elementary schools. One of the participants is eight years and nine months old and another is nine years and five months old. The following are the main research findings: 1. Appling RDI on the children with autism can observably increase the ability of action, face, and eye referencing. 2. After the RDI has been applied on the two participants, the improvement of the action, face, and eye referencing ability can remain good performance during the Maintenance Period of the test. 3. All of the parents and teachers who participated in this research had positive feedbacks.