Thesis Submission Date
Spring 2012
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Psychology
Reader 1
Marjorie Charlop
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Abstract
The effects of a video-modeling intervention, given to five children with autism while playing kickball, were evaluated through a multiple-baseline design across subjects. The researcher targeted two social skills, verbal compliments and appropriate gestures, using the iPad as a portable video device to model the desired behaviors in situ, on second base mid-game. Children were required to verbally and non-verbally compliment their peers during the kickball games. After presented the video clip, children showed rapid mastery of the verbal complimenting skills, and displayed an increased but less profound number of gestures displayed in the intervention phase.
Recommended Citation
Macpherson, Kevin H., "Using Video Modeling to Teach Children with Autism to Give Verbal Compliments and Gesture Appropriately During Competitive Play" (2012). CMC Senior Theses. Paper 313.
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/313