Treating excessively slow responding OFA young man with asperger syndrome using differential reinforcement of short response latencies

Jeffrey H. Tiger, Kelly J. Bouxsein, Wayne W. Fisher

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Abstract

Fjellstedt and Sulzer-Azaroff (1973) used differential reinforcement of short latencies to decrease a child's latency to comply with instructions. We replicated this contingency with a young man diagnosed with Asperger syndrome across two tasks (question answering and math problem solving). We added a differential reinforcement contingency to teach the participant to discriminate between math problems that could be answered rapidly and those that required more time for accurate performance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)559-563
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of applied behavior analysis
Volume40
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2007

Keywords

  • Asperger syndrome
  • Differential reinforcement of short latencies
  • Slow responding

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Philosophy
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Applied Psychology

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