An investigation of the effectiveness of Behavioral Momentum on the acquisition and fluency outcomes of tacts in three children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Kelly, Laura; Holloway, Jennifer

doi:10.1016/j.rasd.2014.10.007

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“…The typical assessment time of the MABC-2 is 20–30 mins 45 , whereas in our sample with moderate to severe autism, it usually took the child more than one hour to complete all tasks. To be more efficacious, high-probability requests should be immediately followed by the target behaviors 36 , 49 . For a lengthy assessment duration, the positive influence of the reinforcement might be weakened at the end of the assessment if it is only included once.…”

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“…By following this pattern of easy tasks, the instructors can efficiently motivate children with ASD to be compliant or engage in task completion. Although no previous studies have incorporated strategies to increase motivation into motor assessments, behavioral momentum has been found to be effective in increasing compliance 33 , 34 , social interactions with peers 35 , and positive behavioral fluency outcomes in children with ASD 36 .…”

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The influence of visual supports and motivation on motor performance of the MABC-2 for Chinese school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder

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Han

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The influences of including visual supports and strategies to increase motivation for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in motor assessments were examined. 97 children with ASD and 117 age-matched typically developing (TD) children performed the Movement Assessment Battery for Children, Second Edition (MABC-2) under traditional, visual support, motivation, and visual support plus motivation protocols. Results showed that children with ASD elicited lower MABC-2 scores than TD children. Moreover, in children with ASD, the visual support protocol, but not the motivation protocol, produced higher scores on ball and balance skills than the traditional protocol. These findings indicated that children with ASD were developmentally delayed in motor skills; however, their performance may be improved by including visual supports in motor assessments.

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The influence of visual supports and motivation on motor performance of the MABC-2 for Chinese school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder

Wang

Han

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“…Fluency is the combination of accurate responding with a targeted response rate (i.e., the fluency aim) and is important for the maintenance and transfer of skills (Binder, 1996), including tacting common objects. Kelly and Holloway (2015) assessed the effectiveness of introducing behavioral momentum (i.e., a sequence of high-probability tacts followed by the target low-probability tact) on the fluency (i.e., correct responses per minute) of low-probability tacts. This intervention increased the fluency of lowprobability tacts for all three participants.…”

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Empirical Application of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior to Interventions for Children with Autism: A Review

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Fisher

2017

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Sundberg and Michael (2011) reviewed the contributions of Skinner's (1957) Verbal Behavior to the treatment of language delays in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and discussed several aspects of interventions, including mand training, intraverbal repertoire development, and the importance of using Skinner's taxonomy of verbal behavior in the clinical context. In this article, we provide an update of Sundberg and Michael's review and expand on some discussion topics. We conducted a systematic review of studies that focused on Skinner's verbal operants in interventions for children with ASD that were published from 2001 to 2017 and discussed the findings in terms of journal source, frequency, and type of verbal operant studied.

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“…Behavioral momentum theory (Nevin, Mandell, & Atak, 1983) has provided direction for innovative application (Cowan, Abel, & Candel, 2017;Greer, Fisher, Romani, & Saini, 2016;Hall, Smith, & Wynne, 2015;Kelly & Holloway, 2015;Lambert, Bloom, Samaha, Dayton, & Kunnavatana, 2016;Nevin, 1996;Nevin et al, 1983;Nevin & Shahan, 2011;Pritchard, Hoerger, & Mace, 2014;Roane, Kelley, Trosclair, & Hauer, 2004), and the important and effective applications of the matching law are ample (Borrero & Vollmer, 2002;Foxall, 2015;Herrnstein, 1961Herrnstein, , 1970C. McDowell & Keenan, 2001;J.…”

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Editorial: What We Can Afford and What Counts

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2017

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As the flagship journal of the world's largest association devoted to behavior analysis, The Behavior Analyst (TBA) exists to present leading edge theory and methodology of relevance to anyone who makes a home on the broad landscape of behavior analysis and behavioral science. As befits that mission, the papers in this issue stretch theoretical and conceptual boundaries and point to new collaborations and future directions in the field. We begin with a special section examining the concept of reinforcement, the nature of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) research, and strategies for disciplinary survival. The papers and commentaries addressing them, ask us to contemplate difficult and perhaps uncomfortable questions facing behavior analysis and behavioral science. We then move to our regularly scheduled programming with papers exploring neuroscience, multiple exemplar training, incarceration, and psychotherapy, along with a methodological paper and a memorial to a pioneering researcher. Of Jets and Sharks There is a scene in the classic film Annie Hall in which a couple on a bicoastal flight are discussing their relationship. One observes that a relationship is like a shark-it must keep moving forward or else it dies, and then concludes that what they have on their hands is essentially, a dead shark. A scientific discipline is much like that-it too must keep moving forward, otherwise it dies. The special section The Future of Behavioral Science and Behavior Analysis is a collective attempt to keep our shark moving, alive, and not turned into hákarl. Can We Afford Reinforcement? A target article by Killeen and Jacobs challenges what we think we may know about reinforcement, and makes a cogent argument to move beyond the well known A-B-C triplet to the quadruple O: S D-R I-R C. Their

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An investigation of the effectiveness of Behavioral Momentum on the acquisition and fluency outcomes of tacts in three children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Cited by 15 publications

References 30 publications

The influence of visual supports and motivation on motor performance of the MABC-2 for Chinese school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder

The influence of visual supports and motivation on motor performance of the MABC-2 for Chinese school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder

Empirical Application of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior to Interventions for Children with Autism: A Review

Editorial: What We Can Afford and What Counts

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