Abstract
Treatments of pediatric feeding disorders based on applied behavior analysis (ABA) have the most empirical support in the research literature (Volkert & Piazza, 2012); however, professionals often recommend, and caregivers often use, treatments that have limited empirical support. In the current investigation, we compared a modified sequential oral sensory approach (M-SOS; Benson, Parke, Gannon, & Muñoz, 2013) to an ABA approach for the treatment of the food selectivity of 6 children with autism. We randomly assigned 3 children to ABA and 3 children to M-SOS and compared the effects of treatment in a multiple baseline design across novel, healthy target foods. We used a multielement design to assess treatment generalization. Consumption of target foods increased for children who received ABA, but not for children who received M-SOS. We subsequently implemented ABA with the children for whom M-SOS was not effective and observed a potential treatment generalization effect during ABA when M-SOS preceded ABA.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 485-511 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Journal of applied behavior analysis |
Volume | 49 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1 2016 |
Keywords
- SOS
- applied behavior analysis
- escape extinction
- feeding disorders
- modified sequential oral sensory
- oral-motor skills
- sensory integration
- sequential oral sensory
- sequential oral sensory training
- systematic desensitization
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Philosophy
- Applied Psychology
- Sociology and Political Science