A Case Study On Interveniton For The Teaching Of Intraverbal Behaviors Of The Children With Autism

The Lacking of the intraverbal behaviors is one of the main deficits of the children with autism, and it’s one of the key for helping the children with autism with teaching the intraverbal behavior.It’s common for teaching the intraverbal behavior with echoic prompt,tact prompt and words prompt.The current research results, the prompt strategy can effectively promote intraverbal behavior of the autistic children.there has no consistent result in the past research.There’s only one research with the purpose of comparing the effects of different prompts.The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of echoic prompts and echoic plus tact prompts to teach intraverbal behaviors to the child with autism.Adapted alternating treatment design was adopted to compare two prompting strategies.The independent variable is prompting strategies and dependent intraverbal behavior.The results show: 1.Both echoic prompt and echoic plus tact prompt are effective to teach intraverbal behavior to the subject. 2.No difference to generalization and maintenance effect to intraverbal behavior between prompting strategies. 3.It’ has a better immediate effect to intraverbal behavior through echoic prompt.In addition, researchers analysis and discuss the result of the study in order to provide some suggestions and reference for the future study in teaching intraverbal behavior to the children with autism.