title: The effects of modeling contingencies in the treatment of food selectivity in children with autism.
abstract: The current study investigated the effectiveness of stating and modeling contingencies in increasing food consumption for two children with food selectivity. Results suggested that stating and modeling a differential reinforcement (DR) contingency for food consumption was effective in increasing consumption of two target foods for one child, and stating and modeling a DR plus nonremoval of the spoon contingency was effective in increasing consumption of the remaining food for the first child and all target foods for the second child.
authors.affiliation: California State University, Sacramento, USA.
authors.forename: Sherrene B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.affiliation: California State University, Sacramento, USA Penrodb@csus.edu.
authors.forename: Becky
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Penrod
authors.affiliation: California State University, Sacramento, USA.
authors.forename: Jonathan K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Fernand
authors.affiliation: California State University, Sacramento, USA.
authors.forename: Colleen M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Whelan
authors.affiliation: California State University, Sacramento, USA.
authors.forename: Kristin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Griffith
authors.affiliation: California State University, Sacramento, USA.
authors.forename: Shannon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Medved
mesh_terms: D001321:Autistic Disorder; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D005108:Extinction, Psychological; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005502:Food; D005518:Food Preferences / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D008297:Male; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology
keywords: applied behavior analysis; autism; differential reinforcement; escape extinction; food selectivity; modeling