Browsing by Author "Klatt, Kevin P."
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Assessing Generalization Between Tact and Receptive Verbal Operants in Young Children Diagnosed with Autism
Muhich, Kaija M.; Byrne, Brittany L.; Matz, Laura M.; Hensel, Allie M.; King, Andy D.; Scharrer, Nicole C.; Goldsmith, Trevor R.; Wiskow, Katie M. (2011-05)The present study examined generalization between tact and receptive skills by teaching picture cards to 3 children diagnosed with autism. Results indicated that teaching one skill (i.e., tact or receptive) generalized to ... -
Assessing Preference for Attention in a Child Diagnosed with Autism.
Newquist, Matthew H.; Micke, Cierra A.; Verriden, Amanda L.; Schlichenmeyer, Kevin; Haessly, Carrie; Paulson, Kelly N.; Ogle, Jodi (2009-02-06)Identifying preferred stimuli that function as reinforcers is extremely important when teaching skills to young children diagnosed with autism. Preference assessments can be conducted to identify a range of high to low ... -
Comparing the Effects of Single and Multiple Target Trials in Teaching Skills to Children Diagnosed with Autism.
Vargo, Kristina K.; Paulson, Kelly N.; Rieck, Tasha M.; Vanselow, Nicholas R. (2009-02-11)Children with autism generally have difficulty communicating with others (Sundberg & Partington, 1998). Therapists working with these children must decide how to most effectively and efficiently teach new skills such as ... -
Comparison of Mastery Criteria in Young Children with Autism
Hensel, Allie M.; Wiskow, Katie M.; Goldsmith, Trevor R.; King, Andy D.; Lobermeier, Adam J.; Matz, Laura M.; Zimmerman, Karl J.; Scharrer, Nicole C. (2011-05)Behavioral intervention for young children diagnosed with autism involves teaching new skills that address the characteristics of autism. When teaching new skills to children diagnosed with autism, skills are taught ... -
The Effect of Prompting Procedures on the Acquisition, Maintenance and Generalization of Intraverbal Behavior.
Jorandby, Jennifer L.; Reetz, Stephany K.; Buchmeier, Amanda L.; Glodowski, Kathryn R.; Larson, Kathryn R. (2009-04)The inability to respond meaningfully to the language of others is a characteristic of children diagnosed with autism. Intraverbal behavior is defined as verbal responses that lack point to point correspondance with the ... -
The Effects of Motivating Operations on the Transfer from Labels to Requests for Children Diagnosed with Autism.
Kooistra, Elizabeth T.; Jorandby, Jennifer L.; Larson, Kathryn R.; Buchmeier, Amanda L.; Verriden, Amanda L. (2009-04)In this study motivating variables were manipulated to examine the effects on teaching children with autism to request for preferred items after teaching them how to label the item. -
Effects of Preference on the Transfer from Labels to Requests in Children with Autism.
Paulson, Kelly N.; Kooistra, Elizabeth T.; Vargo, Kristina K.; Rieck, Tasha M. (2009-02-06)The purpose of this study was to replicate and extend Wallace et al. (2006) to determine the importance of "motivation" on the transfer from a label to a request. The current study included children diagnosed with autism ... -
Effects of Teacher Intonation on the Response of Children with Autism.
Micke, Cierra A.; Drees, Cassandra C.; Rieck, Tasha M. (2009-01-09)This study examined performance on maintenance skills when using a conversational or enthusiastic voice tone for children diagnosed with autism. -
Evaluating Instructor Preference in Children with Developmental Disabilities
Toegel, Forrest J.; Speckin, Lauren M.; Thompson, Matthew; Sansing, Elizabeth; Verkuylen, Leah; Gutknecht, Kylie (2014-04)With the increased incidence of autism over the past few decades, there has been a proliferation of companies providing therapy in the homes of children with autism. Most companies hire untrained individuals to provide ... -
Evaluating Patterns of Preference Displacement Including Social Interactions
Lasinski, Natalie; Parce, Sydney (2022-04)When teaching new skills to children, it is important to identify potential reinforcers. These typically involve food, drinks, and toys or games. Preference assessments are important procedures with predictive validity and ... -
Generalization of Matching-to Sample Skills Across Novel Materials in Children with Autism
Lobermeier, Adam J.; VanTussi, Valerie L.; Matz, Laura M.; Camp, Sarah E.; Hensel, Allie M. (2011-05)The purpose of this study was to conduct a discrimination assessment of changes in materials used when teaching matching-to-sample skills to children with autism. The results will contribute to the field of behavior ... -
Habit Reversal Training to Treat Tics in a Young Boy Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome
VanTussi, Valerie L.; Degner, Brittany A. (2012-04)Tourette's Syndrome is a neurological disorder. A majority of patients seek medical treatment to manage tics (Piacentini & Chang, 2001). Tic symptoms also fluctuate as function of the environment (Leckman & Cohen, 1999) ... -
Habit Reversal Training to Treat Tics in a Young Boy Diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome
Wiskow, Katie M.; VanTussi, Valerie L. (2011-05)Tourette's Syndrome is a neurological disorder. Habit Reversal Training (HRT) (Azrin & Nunn, 1973) is a multi-component behavioral treatment package for suppressing nervous habits and tics by creating awareness of the ... -
Increasing Eye Contact in Children with Autism.
Groth, Alia; Franzke, Tina M. (2009-01-22)A lack of eye contact in infants diagnosed with autism may hinder their ability to acquire later nonverbal and verbal skills (Risley, 1986). This is a direct replication of Morrison (1999) who was able to increase eye ... -
Investigating Smoking on a University Campus
Toegel, Forrest J.; Kerber, Elizabeth M.; Heiberger, Michael A. (2014-04)The purpose of this study was to utilize direct observation to obtain information on the frequency with which smoking occurs in areas designated by the university as smoking and non-smoking areas, and to investigate variables ... -
Investigating the Preference for Simultaneous Prompting and Constant Prompt Delay Procedures in Teaching Skills to Children with Autism
Niebauer, Ashley M. (2013-05)A variety of prompting procedures, including simultaneous prompting and constant prompt delay, have been used to teach new skills to children with autism. Research has shown that both procedures can be used effectively to ... -
Investigating the Step Size in a Progressive-Ratio Schedule of Reinforcement for Young Children Diagnosed with Autism
Reetz, Stephany K.; Haugle, Kathryn R.; Hensel, Allie M.; Miller, Jeffrey R.; Hedquist, Chelsea B. (2010-04)Therapists who provide behavioral therapy to young children with autism need to identify preferred items to use as reinforcers in order to teach appropriate and functional skills. More recently, researchers discovered ... -
Investigating the Step Size in a Progressive-Ratio Schedule of Reinforcement for Young Children with Autism.
Glodowski, Kathryn R.; Hedquist, Chelsea B.; Miller, Jeffrey R.; Buchmeier, Amanda L. (2009-04)Therapists who provide behavioral therapy to young children with autism need to identify preferred items in order to potentially use the items as reinforcers in a therapy session. The current study examined the differences ... -
Investigating the Use of a Blocked Trial Procedure to Facilitate Conditional Discriminations
Reetz, Nicholas K.; Petit, Paula; VanTussi, Valerie L.; Camp, Sarah E.; Larson, Brianne (2011-05)Behavioral therapists, who use behavioral principles to teach skills, typically teach one skill within a behavior repertoire to mastery before teaching another skill within the same repertoire. A fairly common problem ... -
Investigating the Use of Video Modeling to Teach the Expressive Use of Personal Pronouns to Children
Lichtblau, Katie (2013-05)Many young children with autism engage in pronoun reversal and little research has been conducted to address this communication deficit. Video modeling has been used to teach a variety of communication and social skills ...