Graduation Year
2014
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.A.
Degree Granting Department
Child and Family Studies
Major Professor
Kwang-Sun Cho Blair, Ph.D., BCBA
Committee Member
Kimberly Crosland, Ph.D., BCBA
Committee Member
Rose Iovannonne, Ph.D.
Keywords
Functional Communication Skills, Visual Aids, On Task Behavior, Requesting Breaks
Abstract
Abstract
Social communication skills play a central role in the developmental outcomes for young children with autism. Due to deficits in social communication skills, many young children with autism develop problem behavior. Providing these children with the right tools to communicate properly may decrease their problem behavior. This study examines the impact of contingency mapping intervention on problem behavior and functional communication skills in three children with autism, using a multiple-baseline design. Before implementation of contingency mapping, verbal contingency was implemented in the first phase of intervention, which was associated with minimal increases in communication skills and decreases in problem behavior across children. Further increases in communication skills and decreases in problem behavior in the contingency mapping condition indicate that the use of the contingency map as a visual aid may be an effective way to augment the effects of contingency instruction.
Scholar Commons Citation
Sanguino, Diana Carolina, "Using Contingency Mapping to Decrease Problem Behavior and Increase Social Communication Skills in Children with Autism" (2014). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/5120
