| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 環境教育研究所 === 101 === This study aimed to discuss the outcomes of greeting behaviors of an elementary child with autism after the pivotal response training. By withdrawal design of single-case research, the researcher intervened to the performance of a 2nd grade child with autism during a studied period that divided into baseline, intervention and follow-up. For this targeted child who manifested poorly initiative greeting behaviors and difficulties in gaze, the researcher designed and performed the programs of greeting discipline in according to the criteria of pivotal response training. The analyzed methods of the programs included the scoring quantitative levels of greeting behaviors and practicing behavior curves, visual analysis and effective regression testing during every studied period. To realize the outcomes of qualitative measurement of greeting behaviors, the performance of this child was evaluated by researcher involving in this project after and before conducting pivotal response training. These results revealed that, by pivotal response training, for an elementary child with autism, (a) the pivotal response training improving greeting behaviors has immediate effect for a child with autism and, (b) the pivotal response training improving greeting behaviors have maintainable effect for a child with autism and, (c) all relevant people agreed that performing pivotal response training improved greeting behaviors and consequently affect the reformation of interpersonal relationships for the elementary child with autism.
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