Research summaries for autism therapy: fluency

definition of fluency: Ability to speak, write, or communicate effectively with ease.
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Evaluation of a Changing Criterion Intervention to Increase Fluent Responding with an Elementary Age Student with Autism, Summarized Apr 9, 2009

Discrete trial training may help students with autism learn to give fluent answers.

This study looked at the effect of rewards on building fluent response in a student with autism. The intervention worked and taught the elementary school-aged student to give many fluent responses. The student learned rather quickly (4 months) how to give fluent responses. The study was designed to allow the authors to make causal statements about the intervention. The study was limited because it had only one student and no formal data were collected on how well the intervention was done. Read more...

Developing Behavioral Fluency for Students with Autism: A Guide for Parents and Teachers, Summarized Mar 4, 2009

Practice routines that are designed specifically for a child with autism may improve behavior and school performance.

People practice skills in order to become fluent at those skills. Research shows that elite athletes require at least ten years of intense practice to reach their level of skill. The link between active practice and getting better is strong in most fields of research. This paper describes a model for teaching children with autism to perform a certain behavior quickly and correctly (behavior fluency). Fluency means that the children have better recall, are less fatigued, and can better apply learned behavior to more advanced skills. Read more...

Social Stories: Improving Responses of Students with Autism with Accurate Social Information, Summarized Oct 21, 2006

Using brief, simple descriptions of everyday social situations, social stories are used to teach children key information about social behavior that they might not pick up from daily experience. When writing a social story, the authors emphasize that it is crucial to use language at the childâ??s level of comprehension. Also, social stories should be written from the childâ??s point of view.... Read more...

Behavioral Fluency: Evolution of a New Paradigm, Summarized Oct 19, 2006

This article is summarized in a chart that explains factors that prevent and promote fluency (learning a behavior until it becomes second nature). Fluency is promoted by: sufficient practice, self-paced learning, many response opportunities per minute, treating errors as â??learning opportunities,â? and providing many examples. Behavioral fluency focuses on how a learned behavior can become second nature. In the behavioral fluency approach, a complex skill is broken down into parts, and each part is taught until the student becomes fluent in it.... Read more...

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