Treating food selectivity as resistance to change in children with autism spectrum disorder
| Autor: | Jaime G. Crowley, Cathleen C. Piazza, Kathryn M. Peterson, Wayne W. Fisher |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050103 clinical psychology Sociology and Political Science Autism Spectrum Disorder Resistance (psychoanalysis) Developmental psychology Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder Food Preferences Feeding behavior Intervention (counseling) medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Autistic Disorder Child Meals Applied Psychology Consumption (economics) digestive oral and skin physiology 05 social sciences Food selectivity medicine.disease Philosophy Autism spectrum disorder Child Preschool Autism Female sense organs Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. 53:2002-2023 |
| ISSN: | 1938-3703 0021-8855 |
| Popis: | Change-resistant behavior, such as rigid and selective food consumption, is a core symptom of autism that can have significant negative consequences for the child (Flygare Wallén et al., 2018; Levy et al., 2019). In the current study, we used a matching-law-based intervention (Fisher et al., 2019) to treat the change-resistant feeding behavior of 7 young children with autism. The feeder gave the participant a choice between a change-resistant and an alternative food during free- and asymmetrical-choice conditions. Alternative-food consumption increased for 2 participants during asymmetrical choice when the feeder provided a preferred item for consuming the alternative food and no programmed consequence for consuming the change-resistant food. Alternative-food consumption increased for the other 5 participants after the feeder exposed at least 1 food to single choice in which the feeder guided the participant to put the bite of alternative food in his or her mouth if he or she did not do so within 8 s of presentation. Effects of the single-choice contingencies maintained during reversals and generalized to other alternative foods the feeder did not expose to single choice. These results are important because participants consumed alternative foods even when their change-resistant foods were present, which is similar to typical mealtime contexts in which children have choices among foods. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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