Increasing the Duration of Spontaneous Intraverbal Narrative Behaviour through the Use of Intraverbal Full Prompts
Federica Maresci, Claudia Montesanti, Maria Rita Fodero
The study was conducted with the aim of valuing the contingency between the independent variable (training) and the increase of spontaneous intraverbal narrative behavioural duration. The participant in this study was a 5-year-old girl, with unspecified pervasive developmental disorder, who showed difficulty in narrating autobiographical and everyday experiences. The experimental design was a single-subject ABA. During the baseline phase, the duration of spontaneous intraverbal narrative behaviour was measured, without verbal prompts but with the presentation of stimuli that recalled events of daily life. The training sessions consisted in the presentation of visual stimuli (settings and characters) and the measurement of spontaneous intraverbal narrative behaviour. When there was an IRT (Interresponse time) higher than 3 seconds, the response was supported by an intraverbal full prompt. The study, in addition to demonstration of the effectiveness of the training programme in increasing spontaneous storytelling, had a high social significance, in as much as it had an indirect effect on the relationship between peers and on family relationships.
Keywords
Narration, Intraverbal, Story, ABA.
