The number of autism diagnoses has increased dramatically in the past decade Association for Science in Autism Treatment). One type of therapy that has demonstrated treatment efficacy for children with autism is behavioral ...

The basic operant conditioning paradigm states that behavior is followed by consequences and when these consequences are reinforcing, the likelihood of the behavior occurring again increases. Animal trainers have been in ...

Previous research found that teaching one sill to mastery before introducing another skill resulted in faster skill acquisition compared to multiple skills in a mixed fashion. No known research has addressed whether ...

Shaping has been defined as the differential reinforcement of a series of successive approximations to a target behavior. To solve the issue of lack of precision and consistency, past research has used percentile shaping, ...

Generalization, in the context of training dogs, refers to a command controlling a behavior in novel environments or when given by a novel person (Mills, 2005). Stokes and Baer (1977) claim that generalization does not ...

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 ...

The term scrolling has been used by Sundberg (2008) to describe the behavior of a child emitting multiple incorrect verbal responses to a single stimulus. Sundberg noted that incorrect responses emitted are not random, ...

Prompts are commonly utilized to teach canines novel skills during canine obedience training with the goal of having control of the desired behavior transferred from the prompt to a vocal command. Over prompting or fading ...

Results of previous literature suggest that stability of preferences for tangible items varies across individuals. Few studies have examined preference stability for young children with autism. This study extends the ...