Date of Award
12-2017
Culminating Project Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Applied Behavior Analysis: M.S.
Department
Community Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy
College
School of Health and Human Services
First Advisor
Michele R. Traub
Second Advisor
Benjamin N. Witts
Third Advisor
Kimberly A. Schulze
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords and Subject Headings
autism spectrum disorder, photos, children, smile, pictures, joint attention
Abstract
Orientation and social skill delays common within Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) may prevent a child who has a diagnosis of ASD from learning to respond appropriately in photos. In research on teaching joint attention skills, children with autism have been successfully taught to respond appropriately to other types of social stimuli. The purpose of this study was to use teaching strategies from joint attention research to teach three children diagnosed with autism to look and smile in photos. All three children learned to simultaneously look and smile in photos and continued to engage in the response when the reinforcement schedule was thinned. Interest in participating in photos also appeared to be an additional result as all three participants began to regularly mand for participation in photos.
Recommended Citation
La Rue, Ivy M., "Teaching Children with Autism to Look and Smile While Having a Photo Taken" (2017). Culminating Projects in Community Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy. 45.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/cpcf_etds/45
