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  • Title: Increasing spontaneous language in three autistic children.
    Author: Matson JL, Sevin JA, Fridley D, Love SR.
    Journal: J Appl Behav Anal; 1990; 23(2):227-33. PubMed ID: 2373659.
    Abstract:
    A time delay procedure was used to increase spontaneous verbalizations of 3 autistic children. Multiple baseline across behaviors designs were used with target responses, selected via a social validation procedure, of two spontaneous responses ("please" and "thank you") and one verbally prompted response ("you're welcome"). The results indicate gains across target behaviors for all children, with occurrence across other stimuli and settings. These gains were validated socially with 10 adults. Furthermore, increases in appropriate language had no effect on levels of inappropriate speech.
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