Within Stimulus Prompting to Teach Symbol Discrimination Using an iPad® Speech Generating Device
Lorah, Elizabeth R., Crouser, Julie, Gilroy, Shawn P., Tincani, Matt, and Hantula, Donald (2014)
Abstract:
This study evaluated the effects of within stimulus prompting and prompt fading to teach four preschool children with autism picture symbol discrimination using an iPad® and the Proloqu2Go application as a speech-generating device. Participants were taught to discriminate between a progressively more complex field of picture-symbols depicted on the screen of an iPad with a five-phased training procedure. All participants acquired discrimination between picture-symbols while using the iPad to mand for preferred items in a field of four picture-symbols. The results provide tentative support for a procedure to teach children with autism to discriminate between picture symbols while manding using a handheld speech-generating device.
Citation: Lorah, Elizabeth R., Crouser, Julie, Gilroy, Shawn P., Tincani, Matt, and Hantula, Donald (2014). Within Stimulus Prompting to Teach Symbol Discrimination Using an iPad® Speech Generating Device. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 26(3). 335-346. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10882-014-9369-1