Teaching Children with Autism to Ask "What's That?" Using a Picture Communication with Vocal Results

Autor/inn/en	Ostryn, Cheryl; Wolfe, Pamela S.
Titel	Teaching Children with Autism to Ask "What's That?" Using a Picture Communication with Vocal Results
Quelle	In: Infants and Young Children, 24 (2011) 2, S.174-192 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0896-3746
DOI	10.1097/IYC.0b013e31820d95ff
Schlagwörter	Augmentative and Alternative Communication; Autism; Children; Communication Skills; Pictorial Stimuli; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Questioning Techniques; Nonverbal Communication + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Child; Kind; Kinder; Kommunikationsstil; Fantasieanregung; Befragungstechnik; Fragetechnik; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation
Abstract	Being a competent communicator is complex and goes beyond expressing simple needs and wants to include having the ability to ask and respond to wh-questions. For individuals with autism spectrum disorders who use pictures to communicate, initiating communications such as questions can be difficult and it has been shown that some picture systems do not include question asking in the curriculum, such as the Picture Exchange Communication System. This study attempted to address this lack of question asking in teaching communication with pictures. The current study investigated how augmentative and alternative communication users learn to communicate, with methods of how vocal individuals with autism spectrum disorders have been taught to ask wh-questions, to teach nonvocal individuals with autism spectrum disorders to ask the question "What's that?" using a picture communication. The results showed that all 3 participants learned to vocally ask "What's that?" without requiring the communication picture, and the training for all participants was completed within 1 to 2 days. Secondary findings included the successful generalization of this question to nontrained settings, communicative partners, and stimuli. This study extends the limited literature on teaching wh-questions to individuals with autism spectrum disorders and supports findings of vocal outcomes with individuals who use picture systems to communicate. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10