Improving Question-Asking Initiations in Young Children with Autism Using Pivotal Response Treatment

Social initiations make up a core deficit for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In particular, initiated questions during social interactions are often minimal or absent in this population. In the context of a multiple baseline design, the efficacy of using the motivational procedures of...

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Published inJournal of autism and developmental disorders Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 816 - 827
Main Authors Koegel, Robert L., Bradshaw, Jessica L., Ashbaugh, Kristen, Koegel, Lynn Kern
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston Springer US 01.04.2014
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Adaptation, Psychological
Adjustment (to Environment)
Autism
Autistic children
Autistic spectrum disorders
Behavior Therapy - methods
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Care and treatment
Child and School Psychology
Child clinical studies
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - psychology
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - therapy
Child, Preschool
Communication
Communication Skills
Communication Strategies
Demographic aspects
Developmental disorders
Educational Strategies
Efficacy
Health aspects
Humans
Improvement Programs
Infantile autism
Initiation
Interaction
Interpersonal Communication
Interpersonal Competence
Interpersonal Relations
Intervention
Language Acquisition
Language Skills
Male
Medical sciences
Motivation
Motivation Techniques
Neurosciences
Original Paper
Outcomes of Treatment
Patient outcomes
Pediatrics
Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Preschool Children
Program Effectiveness
Program Evaluation
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Public Health
Questioning Techniques
Social Behavior
Social Cognition
Social interaction
Teenagers
Training Methods
Treatment Outcome
Vocabulary Development
Young Children
Youth
United States
Initiations
Early intervention
Question-asking
Motivation
Pivotal response treatment
Autism spectrum disorder
Human
Developmental disorder
Autism
Pervasive developmental disorder
Treatment
Early
Child
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Summary:Social initiations make up a core deficit for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In particular, initiated questions during social interactions are often minimal or absent in this population. In the context of a multiple baseline design, the efficacy of using the motivational procedures of Pivotal Response Treatment to increase social question-asking for three young children with autism was assessed. Results indicated that participants initiated a greater number of targeted questions following intervention. Additionally, all children exhibited increases in initiation of untargeted questions during social interaction in novel settings. Furthermore, post intervention data revealed collateral gains in communication and adaptive behavior. Theoretical implications of incorporating motivational strategies into intervention to improve social initiations in young children with ASD are discussed.
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Robert L. Koegel, Ph.D., Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology Department, Koegel Autism Center, University of California, Santa Barbara; Jessica L. Bradshaw, M.A., Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara; Kristen Ashbaugh, Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara; Lynn Kern Koegel, Ph.D., Clinical Director, Koegel Autism Center, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Lynn and Robert Koegel are partners in the private firm, Koegel Autism Consultants, LLC.
ISSN:0162-3257
1573-3432
DOI:10.1007/s10803-013-1932-6