THE USE OF A VERBAL REPRIMAND TO DECREASE RUMINATION IN A CHILD WITH AUTISM |
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| Authors: | Alex Dominguez David A. Wilder Kim Cheung Catalina Rey |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Dominguez Group Homes, USA;2. Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA |
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| Abstract: | After a pre‐treatment screening analysis suggested that rumination exhibited by a boy with autism occurred in the absence of social consequences, we evaluated the effect of a verbal reprimand contingent on the target behavior via a reversal design. The reprimand reduced rumination to near‐zero levels; we then thinned the reprimand schedule and rumination remained infrequent. Follow‐up data collected 6, 12, and 18 months after initial treatment suggested that intervention effects were maintained. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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