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Reducing Self-Stimulatory Behaviour in a Boy With Autism: A Single Case Study*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2015

Miguel Fernandez
Miguel Fernandez*
Affiliation:
Association for Autistic Children in W.A.
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16 Outlook Drive, Edgewater, W.A. 6027
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Abstract

Time Out (TO) and Trained Play Sessions (TPS) of basketball/football and computer games were used to reduce the self-stirnulatory behaviour of a higher functioning autistic child in an integrated classroom setting. The self-stimulatory behaviour took the form of inappropriate vocalization while gazing at the classroom clock. The client participated in sessions in an A-B-A-B design where A is the baseline and B the intervention. In addition, there was one continuation phase and an additional phase with a different condition. It was found that: (a) during baseline, inappropriate vocalisation was very high with the clock on the wall, (b) the percentage of inappropriate vocalisation dropped during the intervention and continuation phases when the clock was removed from the wall and TO and TPS were introduced and (c) the reduction in inappropriate vocalisation was found to be maintained when TPS were conducted with the clock on the wall and without TO.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Educational and Developmental Psychologist , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , June 1990 , pp. 11 - 14
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Psychological Society 1990

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Footnotes

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This paper was presented at the Australian Behaviour Modification Association's 12th National Conference, 1989, Perth, Western Australia.

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