Date of Award
1-2011
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Dr. Richard W. Malott
Second Advisor
Dr. Ron Van Houten
Third Advisor
Dr. Stephanie Peterson
Fourth Advisor
Dr. Steve Ragotzy
Abstract
A pre-test showed that three pre-school children with autism had difficulty learning to match spoken words to objects (receptive identification). Therefore, they were first taught to match environmental sounds to objects (e.g., to touch a tambourine, when they heard the sound of the tambourine) and then to match spoken words to other objects while continuing to match the mastered environmental sounds to the original objects.
For all three children, simply learning the environmental-sound/object matching did not facilitate learning spoken-word/object matching; however intermixing the training of spoken-word/object matching with the previously mastered environmentalsound/ object matching did result in the mastery of those intermixed spoken-word/object matches, which, in turn, led to the mastery of additional spoken-word/object matches without further involvement of environmental-sound/object matching. Incidentally, for the environmental-sound/object matching, the objects had been modified to produce no auditory feedback when touched by the children, demonstrating that auditory feedback was not needed to learn the environmental-sound/object matching.
Access Setting
Dissertation-Open Access
Recommended Citation
Chow, Woan Tian, "Using Environmental Sounds to Initiate Receptive Language Training for Children with Autism" (2011). Dissertations. 358.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dissertations/358
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