Teaching prelinguistic communication skills to school age children with autism
| dc.contributor.advisor | Davis, Barbara L. (Barbara Lockett) | en |
| dc.contributor.advisor | O'Reilly, Mark F. | en |
| dc.creator | Franco, Jessica Hetlinger | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-05-27T14:28:44Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2010-05-27T14:28:44Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-12 | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Prelinguistic Milieu Teaching (PMT) is an intervention designed to teach young children to initiate nonverbal communication using vocalizations, gestures, and eye-gaze. Children are taught through social routines in their natural environment. Techniques include contriving an environment in which the children will be motivated to communicate and using a hierarchy of prompting and modeling to evoke the desired communicative behaviors, such as requesting and commenting. PMT has been previously studied in young children (ages 1-5) with developmental delays. In this study, it is implemented with six school-age children with Autism (ages 5-8). A multiple baseline design across participants was used to evaluate the effects of the intervention on the variables of frequency, clarity, and maintenance of the participants’ communication. All six participants showed increases in the targeted prelinguistic communication skills during treatment and maintained the increases during follow-up. Analysis of individual behavioral profiles was helpful for disambiguating individual differences in response to intervention across the three variables. Future research should target generalization of learned behaviors across implementers and settings. | en |
| dc.description.department | Special Education | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/7520 | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.rights | Copyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works. | en |
| dc.subject | Prelinguistic Milieu Teaching | en |
| dc.subject | School-age children | en |
| dc.subject | Autism | en |
| dc.subject | Communication skills | en |
| dc.title | Teaching prelinguistic communication skills to school age children with autism | en |
| thesis.degree.department | Special Education | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Special Education | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | The University of Texas at Austin | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |