title: Autistic children: a study of learning characteristics and programming needs.
abstract: Learning-acquisition characteristics of six autistic children were studied in order to examine programming needs. Two studies were conducted. Study 1 showed that the first step of a color-cued sequencing task required four times more trials to learn than did the remaining five steps, producing a significant learning-to-learn curve. Study 2 confirmed earlier findings that extra-stimulus prompts are comparatively ineffective with autistic children when compared to within-stimulus prompts and showed extra-stimulus prompting to be effective following the use of within-stimulus prompting on a similar task.
mesh_terms: D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D008297:Male; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D012691:Serial Learning