title: Using multiple-exemplar training to teach a generalized repertoire of sharing to children with autism.
abstract: The current study examined the utility of multiple-exemplar training to teach children with autism to share. Stimuli from 3 of 4 categories were trained using a treatment package of video modeling, prompting, and reinforcement. Offers to share increased for all 3 children following the introduction of treatment, with evidence of skill maintenance. In addition, within-stimulus-category generalization of sharing was evident for all participants, although only 1 participant demonstrated across-category generalization of sharing. Offers to share occurred in a novel setting, with familiar and novel stimuli, and in the presence of novel adults and peers for all participants during posttreatment probes.
authors.affiliation: Caldwell College, Caldwell, New Jersey, USA.
authors.forename: Denise
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marzullo-Kerth
authors.forename: Sharon A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Reeve
authors.forename: Kenneth F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Reeve
authors.forename: Dawn B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Townsend
mesh_terms: D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D005793:Generalization, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D013663:Teaching; D014743:Videotape Recording