Teaching foundational perspective-taking skills to children with autism using the PEAK-T curriculum: single-reversal "I-You" deictic frames.
We taught basic perspective-taking tasks to 3 children with autism and evaluated their ability to derive mutually entailed single-reversal deictic relations of those newly established perspective-taking skills. Furthermore, we examined the possibility of transfers of perspective-taking function to novel untrained stimuli. The methods were taken from the PEAK-T training curriculum, and results yielded positive gains for all 3 children to learn basic perspective taking as well as for 2 of the 3 to derive untrained single-reversal I relations following direct training of single-reversal You relations. All participants demonstrated a transfer of stimulus function to untrained stimuli after the single-reversal deictic relations had been mastered.
Southern Illinois University.
Jordan
J
Belisle
Southern Illinois University.
Mark R
MR
Dixon
Southern Illinois University.
Caleb R
CR
Stanley
Southern Illinois University.
Bridget
B
Munoz
Southern Illinois University.
Jacob H
JH
Daar
D000293:Adolescent; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D056345:Theory of Mind / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*

PEAK
; autism; perspective taking; relational frame theory