Teaching Conversation Skills and Behaviours
Claudia Spadaro, Maria Erica Lacerenza
We first selected the conversation topics preferred by the pupils and selected 3 target behaviours related to the area of social skills for each participant. Then the baseline phase for each participant started on the 3 target behaviours selected for 3 consecutive sessions. Thus began the training that included the explanation of the importance of learning these skills, the presentation of different video modelling interventions (5 for each target behaviour), a rehearsal or live testing phase and finally the delivery of specific or corrective descriptive feedback according to the progress of the trial. The research design chosen is a multiple baseline across behaviours for each participant. The procedure selected from the literature has proved to be effective in teaching the target behaviours chosen.
Keywords
Autism, Behavioral skills training, Social skills, Conversational skills, Token economy.
