An assessment of error-correction procedures for learners with autism

• Published in: Journal of applied behavior analysis Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 626 - 639
• Main Authors: McGhan, Anna C., Lerman, Dorothea C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bloomington, IN Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2013; Wiley Periodicals, Inc; Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
• Subjects: assessment; Autism; Autistic Disorder - complications; Behavior Therapy - methods; Behavior therapy. Cognitive therapy; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child clinical studies; Child, Preschool; conditional discrimination; Developmental Disabilities; Developmental disorders; Discrimination Learning; Error Correction; Error correction & detection; Evaluation Methods; Feedback; Feedback (Response); Feedback, Psychological; Humans; Infantile autism; Intellectual disabilities; Intellectual Disability; Learning; Learning Disorders - etiology; Learning Disorders - therapy; Male; Mastery Learning; Medical sciences; Methods; Negative Reinforcement; Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Positive Reinforcement; Prior Learning; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Reinforcement (Psychology); Repetition; Reproducibility of Results; Resistance (Psychology); Sight Vocabulary; Skills; Software reviews; Student Reaction; Students; Studies; Teaching; Teaching Methods; Test Reliability; Test Validity; Therapists; Treatments; Verbal Learning - physiology; Human; Evaluation; conditional discrimination; Instrumental conditioning; Developmental disorder; Learning; Autism; assessment; Acquisition process; Treatment; Discrimination; Behavior therapy; Error correction; autism; error correction

Prior research indicates that the relative effectiveness of different error‐correction procedures may be idiosyncratic across learners, suggesting the potential benefit of an individualized assessment prior to teaching. In this study, we evaluated the reliability and utility of a rapid error‐correct...