The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy of a self-rehearsal procedure to teach five individuals with autism to follow multiple-step selection of stimuli. Within a multiple probe design across participants, participants were taught to echo the experimenter's instruction, self-echo, and then select multiple pictorial stimuli in order from an array of directly trained and untrained sets of stimuli. Self-rehearsal and selection related to activities of daily living in the natural environment required direct training. Probes of novel multiple-step tasks were conducted. Implications for the role of joint control in developing skills sequences to teach generative responding, conceptual analyses of covert verbal behavior, and designing instructional goals related to transition from formal education settings are discussed.

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使用联合控制向自闭症学生教授日常生活和职业任务的活动

本研究的目的是评估自我排练程序的有效性，以教导五名自闭症患者遵循多步选择刺激。在跨参与者的多探针设计中，参与者被教导回应实验者的指令、自我回应，然后从一系列直接训练和未经训练的刺激中按顺序选择多个图形刺激。与自然环境中的日常生活活动相关的自我排练和选择需要直接培训。对新颖的多步骤任务进行了探索。讨论了联合控制在发展技能序列以教授生成性反应、隐蔽言语行为的概念分析以及设计与从正规教育环境过渡相关的教学目标中的作用。