Comparison of extra- and within-stimulus prompting to teach prepositional discriminations to preschool children with developmental disabilities

Autor: Arnold Rincover, Jane A. Summers, Maurice A. Feldman
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Journal of Behavioral Education. 4:145-146
ISSN: 1573-3513
1053-0819
DOI: 10.1007/bf01560516
Popis: This study compared extra-stimulus to within-stimulus prompts in teaching children with developmental disabilities to discriminate the prepositional concepts “In” and “On”. Five preschool-aged children who had difficulty discriminating verbal instructions participated. Extra-stimulus prompts involved modeling, gestures, positioning, and auditory cues which did not form part of the target discrimination. Within-stimulus prompts manipulated the volume and intonational pattern of the verbal stimuli. Four children did not learn the discrimination with extra-stimulus prompting. All four of these children, plus a fifth child who did not have prior experience with extra-stimulus prompting, reached criterion in the within-stimulus prompting condition. The success of the within-stimulus prompts may be related to their enhancing phonetic differences between the verbal stimuli.
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