A comparison of response interruption and redirection and competing items on vocal stereotypy and appropriate vocalizations

Shawler, Lesley A.; Dianda, Mia; Miguel, Caio F.

doi:10.1002/jaba.596

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“…The current study replicates and extends the findings of previous research, suggesting that other sources of stimulation including contingent and noncontingent sources of reinforcement in naturalistic contexts, can compete with stereotypy (e.g., Love et al, 2012;Shawler et al, 2020). These results support the Dickman et al (2012) hypothesis that social reinforcement for appropriate behavior can compete with stereotypy, demonstrating the relation between functional engagement and stereotypy.…”

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confidence: 89%

Examining stereotypy in naturalistic contexts: Differential reinforcement and context‐specific redirection

Steinhauser

Ahearn

Foster

et al. 2021

J of App Behav Analysis

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This study examined stereotypy in naturalistic classroom contexts (i.e., academic programming, leisure skill acquisition) with differential reinforcement of contextually appropriate behavior (DRA). When stereotypy was problematic, redirection to the ongoing activity was provided. Contextually appropriate behavior and stereotypy were measured across all contexts prior to redirecting stereotypy to contextually appropriate behavior. Low levels of stereotypy were observed during the DRA in at least 2 contexts for all 5 participants. Context-specific redirection was added to the DRA if stereotypy persisted, and decreased stereotypy in 9 of the 10 evaluations. The results suggest that stereotypy might not be problematic in all contexts when DRA is present and redirection to contextually relevant appropriate behavior is an effective strategy.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Examining stereotypy in naturalistic contexts: Differential reinforcement and context‐specific redirection

Steinhauser

Ahearn

Foster

et al. 2021

J of App Behav Analysis

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“…In addition to the implementation of single‐component interventions, a treatment package was assessed for 78 data series (e.g., Shawler et al., 2020; Watkins et al., 2011). Treatment packages depicted on Table 4 are presented by the number of components included in the package and then the number of participants per intervention.…”

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Treatments for automatically reinforced vocal stereotypy for individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A literature and meta‐analytic review

Mantzoros

McCoy

Lee

2022

Behavioral Interventions

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Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder may engage in repetitive vocal behaviors which interfere with a structured environment and social inclusion. If untreated, these vocal behaviors maintain into adulthood potentially impeding gainful employment and independent living. This analysis specifically focused on treatments available for presumed or functionally determined automatically reinforced repetitive vocal behaviors, also known as vocal stereotypy. For this review, a systematic keyword search of the literature identified 66 articles and a Tau-U measure of effect size was calculated for 34 eligible studies in order to determine impact of interventions on vocal stereotypy. Of the single-component interventions assessed, three interventions demonstrated a very large effect: interactive activity (0.94), self-management (0.89), and response interruption and redirection (interrupted measurement, 0.86). Additionally, 92% of treatment packages reached a very large effect (0.85-1.00), all of which included stimulus control and/or response cost intervention components. Theoretical and practical applications are discussed, as well as implications for future research.

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“…Actually, the access to stereotyped vocal behaviour in the green card/no card condition becomes a reinforcement in the red card condition since the child engages to decrease the vocal stereotypies. It will be interesting to study the increment of functional vocalizations of children in order to understand if a RIRD procedure [ 42 , 43 ], where the therapist block the self-stimulation prompting the correct response is enough to address these challenging behaviours. Future research studies could investigate the efficacy of stimulus control, comparing it with behaviour redirections.…”

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confidence: 99%

Stimulus Control Procedure for Reducing Vocal Stereotypies in an Autistic Child

Esposito

Pignotti

Mondani³

et al. 2021

Children

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Stereotyped vocal behavior exhibited by a seven-year-old child diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and maintained by automatic reinforcement was placed under stimulus control through discrimination training. The training consisted of matching a green card (SD) with free access to vocal stereotypy and a red card (SD-absent) with interruption of stereotypy and vocal redirection. At the same time, appropriate behaviors were reinforced. After discrimination training, the child rarely engaged in vocal stereotypy in the red card condition and, to a greater extent, in the green card condition, demonstrating the ability to discriminate between the two different situations. After the training, the intervention began. Once they reached the latency criterion in the red stimulus condition, the child could have free access to vocal stereotypy (green card condition). The latency criterion for engaging in stereotypy was gradually increased during the red card condition and progressively decreased during the green card condition. The intervention follows a changing criterion design. This study indicates that stimulus discrimination training is a useful intervention to reduce vocal stereotypy in an autistic child.

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A comparison of response interruption and redirection and competing items on vocal stereotypy and appropriate vocalizations

Cited by 15 publications

References 29 publications

Examining stereotypy in naturalistic contexts: Differential reinforcement and context‐specific redirection

Examining stereotypy in naturalistic contexts: Differential reinforcement and context‐specific redirection

Treatments for automatically reinforced vocal stereotypy for individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A literature and meta‐analytic review

Stimulus Control Procedure for Reducing Vocal Stereotypies in an Autistic Child

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