Comparison of interventions to treat prompt dependence for children with developmental disabilities

Gorgan, Ella; Kodak, Tiffany

doi:10.1002/jaba.638

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“…They rely on prompt and permission from paraprofessional. Gorgan and Kodak (2019) Compared intervention skills for participants who consistently engaged in correct responses following prompts, but not independently. Jowett et al (2012) Some video-based interventions for ASD have also reported prompt dependency.…”

Section: Aba Only Work For Children With Particular Characteristics Of Autismmentioning

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Long-term ABA Therapy Is Abusive: A Response to Gorycki, Ruppel, and Zane

Sandoval-Norton¹,

Shkedy²,

Shkedy³

2021

Adv Neurodev Disord

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Objective In a recent response to a review of ABA literature, methodologies, and ethics, the authors of the response attempted to negate the compilation of research presented. The goal of their response was to advocate for the continued use of ABA and attempt to demonstrate that it is in fact effective in treating autism. The research utilized in the response does not pertain to the population discussed, does not present any neuroscientific research, and does not address intrinsic motivation, elevated levels of anxiety, or various other pertinent issues associated with the nonverbal autism population. Methods The current paper helps clarify any misinterpretation of the original research and seeks to advocate for greater protections and ethical compliance within this vulnerable subset of individuals on the autism spectrum. Additionally, more recent research has been included to assist in this clarification. Results Despite decades of usage as the primary method for this population worldwide, ABA has never been shown to be even slightly efficacious for the nonverbal Autism population. Conclusions Research in ABA continues to neglect the structure the autistic brain, the overstimulation of the autistic brain, the trajectory of child development, or the complex nature of human psychology, as all of these factors were ignored in the response and are ignored in ABA practice itself. Providing a treatment that causes pain in exchange for no benefit, even if unknowingly, is tantamount to torture and violates the most basic requirement of any therapy, to do no harm.

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Section: Aba Only Work For Children With Particular Characteristics Of Autismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Long-term ABA Therapy Is Abusive: A Response to Gorycki, Ruppel, and Zane

Sandoval-Norton¹,

Shkedy²,

Shkedy³

2021

Adv Neurodev Disord

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“…Although Clare engaged in some correct responses during this probe, her responding did not increase. Therefore, based on research on prompt dependence (Gorgan & Kodak, 2019 ), we extended the response interval to 10 s. However, she did not emit more correct responses. Clare may have emitted more correct responses had we implemented differential reinforcement earlier, without the long history of probes under extinction conditions (i.e., Brenna in Petursdottir et al, 2020 ).…”

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“…Clare was not emitting vocal responses reliably when we added differential reinforcement; therefore, we made a final modification to increase the response interval (Gorgan & Kodak, 2019 ). We hypothesized that an extended response interval would increase the probability of vocalizations, if they were acquired under relevant sources of control, to end the probe session more quickly.…”

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The Use of Instructive Feedback to Promote Emergent Tact and Intraverbal Control: A Replication

Gavidia

Bergmann

Rader

2022

Analysis Verbal Behav

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“…Based on Gorgan and Kodak (2019), we also modified generalization probes for Sophie by extending the response time to 10 s due to long latencies to respond or high number of no responses during probe sessions. Nevertheless, her responding did not change with this modification, and we returned to a 5-s response interval after 7 sessions.…”

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Using GIFs and Matrix Training to Teach Noun-Verb Tacts to Children with Autism

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Verbal behavior is a critical repertoire for children with autism spectrum disorder to acquire. Tacts—verbal behavior evoked by nonverbal stimuli—are important for communicating about the world around oneself. Noun-verb tacts are part of a robust tact repertoire and may be addressed during applied behavior analytic intervention. When acquiring noun-verb tacts, it is important that the speaker learn to respond to many variations of stimuli like novel combinations of learned nouns and verbs, which is called recombinative generalization. One strategy to teach multi-component targets, such as the noun-verb tact, and lead to recombinative generalization is matrix training. Matrix training is a framework utilized to arrange targets that can be combined in order to facilitate recombinative generalization by teaching a subset of combinations and then probing others. With three children with ASD, we used matrix training and evaluated the acquisition of trained and novel combinations of noun-verb tacts with GIFs as stimuli arranged in three matrices. We used a concurrent multiple probe design across sets, and our results indicated that all participants acquired trained noun-verb tact targets in the presence of the GIFs. The degree of recombinative generalization varied across participants, but each participant demonstrated recombinative generalization with some stimuli. We analyzed responding during generalization probes to identify possible sources of stimulus control. We discussed the errors that were emitted when testing for recombinative generalization and provided suggestions for future research on matrix training and recombinative generalization.

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Comparison of interventions to treat prompt dependence for children with developmental disabilities

Cited by 10 publications

References 15 publications

Long-term ABA Therapy Is Abusive: A Response to Gorycki, Ruppel, and Zane

Long-term ABA Therapy Is Abusive: A Response to Gorycki, Ruppel, and Zane

The Use of Instructive Feedback to Promote Emergent Tact and Intraverbal Control: A Replication

Using GIFs and Matrix Training to Teach Noun-Verb Tacts to Children with Autism

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