Date of Defense

4-19-2024

Date of Graduation

4-2024

Department

Psychology

First Advisor

Stephanie Peterson

Second Advisor

Kelise Stewart

Third Advisor

Ali Schroeder

Abstract

Daily living skills, categorized as personal-care activities within the home, community, and school setting, are crucial components in establishing daily routines amongst adolescents (Stabel, 2013). Many of these activities require gross motor and fine motor skills, which are skills that tend to be difficult for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD;Chen et al., 2022). When trying to express their wants and needs surrounding completing day-to-day activities, individuals with ASD may engage in problem behaviors as a way to communicate (Iwata et al., 1982). Nonetheless, implementing choice in treatment has been found to significantly decrease occurrences of problem behavior (Shogren et al., 2004). Thus, the aim of this study was to implement treatment procedures informed by client choice by recording their behaviors within different teaching modalities to assess preferences. During the pre-assessment, a randomized AB design was used to assess the participant’s responding to a video model format and in-vivo model format for raking fingers through hair. Probes using high-probability skills were then conducted to reassess the participants responding to the two formats. Although the final part of the study, hairbrushing, was not able to be completed, the results indicated that video modeling was not a successful teaching method for this participant.

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Honors Thesis-Open Access

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