The Training and Generalization of Social Interaction during Breaktime at Two Job Sites in the Natural Environment

摘要: Four high-school age students with autism and severe handicaps were trained to initiate sustain social interactions nonhandicapped peers in a commonly shared breakroom at two community job sites. The generalization of behavior nontrained coworkers was probed the same setting during natural breaktimes. A multiple-baseline across subjects design used assess effectiveness training package based on concurrent chains responses using systematic prompting reinforcement correct behavior. Generalization promoted multiple exemplar strategy. results showed that all participants acquired chain break behaviors one peer trainer. Two displayed prior acquisition complete chain. required occurrence generalization.