TY - JOUR
T1 - Teaching Reading Comprehension Skills to a Child with Autism Using Behaviour Skills Training
AU - Singh, Binita D.
AU - Moore, Dennis William
AU - Furlonger, Brett Edward
AU - Anderson, Angelika
AU - Busacca, Margherita
AU - English, Derek Leo
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - A multiple probe design across skills was used to examine the effects of behaviour skills training (BST) on teaching four reading comprehension skills (predicting,questioning, clarifying, and summarizing) to a 7th grade student with autism. Following baseline, the student received 12 sessions of BST during which each skill was taught to criterion. At each session, data was also collected on the accuracy of oral responses to 10 comprehension questions. BST was associated with clear gains in the participant’s performance on each comprehension skill, along with concomitant gains in reading comprehension both on the daily probes and a standardized measure. Skills maintained at follow-up support the conclusion that BST was effective in improving the comprehension skills of a child with autism.
AB - A multiple probe design across skills was used to examine the effects of behaviour skills training (BST) on teaching four reading comprehension skills (predicting,questioning, clarifying, and summarizing) to a 7th grade student with autism. Following baseline, the student received 12 sessions of BST during which each skill was taught to criterion. At each session, data was also collected on the accuracy of oral responses to 10 comprehension questions. BST was associated with clear gains in the participant’s performance on each comprehension skill, along with concomitant gains in reading comprehension both on the daily probes and a standardized measure. Skills maintained at follow-up support the conclusion that BST was effective in improving the comprehension skills of a child with autism.
KW - ASD
KW - Reading comprehension
KW - Behaviour skills training
KW - Multiple probe design
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85022092758&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10803-017-3229-7
DO - 10.1007/s10803-017-3229-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85022092758
VL - 47
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
JF - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
SN - 0162-3257
IS - 10
ER -