Am J Ment Defic. 1978 Sep;83(2):200-2.

Autistic children: a study of learning characteristics and programming needs.

American journal of mental deficiency

J R Arick, D A Krug

PMID: 696771

Abstract

Learning-acquisition characteristics of six autistic children were studied in order to examine programming needs. Two studies were conducted. Study 1 showed that the first step of a color-cued sequencing task required four times more trials to learn than did the remaining five steps, producing a significant learning-to-learn curve. Study 2 confirmed earlier findings that extra-stimulus prompts are comparatively ineffective with autistic children when compared to within-stimulus prompts and showed extra-stimulus prompting to be effective following the use of within-stimulus prompting on a similar task.

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MeSH terms

• Autistic Disorder / psychology
• Autistic Disorder / rehabilitation
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Education of Intellectually Disabled*
• Female
• Humans
• Learning Disabilities / psychology
• Learning Disabilities / rehabilitation
• Male
• Practice, Psychological
• Serial Learning

Publication Types

• Journal Article