title: Treating excessively slow responding of a young man with Asperger syndrome using differential reinforcement of short response latencies.
abstract: Fjellstedt and Sulzer-Azaroff (1973) used differential reinforcement of short latencies to decrease a child's latency to comply with instructions. We replicated this contingency with a young man diagnosed with Asperger syndrome across two tasks (question answering and math problem solving). We added a differential reinforcement contingency to teach the participant to discriminate between math problems that could be answered rapidly and those that required more time for accurate performance.
authors.affiliation: Munroe-Meyer Institute, UNMC, 985450 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Tiger
authors.forename: Kelly J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Bouxsein
authors.forename: Wayne W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Fisher
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D020817:Asperger Syndrome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D014705:Verbal Behavior