Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Date of Award
4-2004
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Education (MEd)
Department
Special Education
First Advisor
Dr. Jo Ann Mitchell Burns
Second Advisor
Dr. Laura M. Saenz
Third Advisor
Dr. Marie Simonsson
Abstract
This single subject multiple baseline study investigated the effect of a student chosen reinforcer on academic engagement during acquisition tasks in an elementary student with autism. The subject was a 6 year-old Hispanic male with a primary diagnosis of autism. The student is in a regular classroom setting greater than 60% of the day, with the remainder of the day spent in a self-contained classroom. A stopwatch was utilized to measure the student's duration of academic engagement duration during acquisition tasks. The acquisition task consisted of an age appropriate fine motor word copying activity. The reinforcer was presented in a fixed response duration schedule based on the duration of academic engagement found during baselines. The research design utilized was a single subject A-B-A-B withdrawal design. The results of the study indicated that the intervention was successful in increasing the amount of time the student was academically engaged.
Granting Institution
University of Texas-Pan American
Comments
Copyright 2004 Terrence Jerome Bernard. All Rights Reserved.
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