A Comparison of Discrete Trial Teaching with and without Gestures/Signs in Teaching Receptive Language Skills to Children with Autism

Kurt O.

KURAM VE UYGULAMADA EGITIM BILIMLERI, cilt.11, sa.3, ss.1436-1444, 2011 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 11 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2011
  • Dergi Adı: KURAM VE UYGULAMADA EGITIM BILIMLERI
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1436-1444
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Discrete Trial Teaching, Autism, Language and Communication, Receptive Language Skills, ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION, SIGN LANGUAGE, ACQUISITION, INTERVENTION, RATIONALE, SPEECH
  • Anadolu Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The present study was designed to compare the effectiveness and efficiency of two discrete trial teaching procedures for teaching receptive language skills to children with autism. While verbal instructions were delivered alone during the first procedure, all verbal instructions were combined with simple gestures and/or signs during the second procedure when teaching receptive language skills by using discrete trial teaching. A parallel treatments design was used to compare the differential effects of the two procedures on the acquisition of the receptive language skills. Two students with autism participated in the study. The results of the study showed that the discrete trial teaching procedure in which verbal instructions were combined with simple gestures and/or signs was slightly more effective and efficient on promoting the acquisition of receptive language skills for both students. Discrete trial teaching procedure in which verbal instructions were delivered alone was not effective for any of the training sets across students.