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. 2017 Sep 18;33(2):290-295.
doi: 10.1007/s40616-017-0084-8. eCollection 2017 Oct.

Establishing Derived Equivalence Relations of Basic Geography Skills in Children with Autism

Mark R Dixon  1 , Caleb Stanley  1 , Jordan Belisle  1 , Megan E Galliford  1 , Amani Alholail  1 , Ayla M Schmick  1
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Establishing Derived Equivalence Relations of Basic Geography Skills in Children with Autism

Mark R Dixon et al. Anal Verbal Behav. .

Abstract

The present study evaluated the efficacy of a stimulus-equivalence training procedure in teaching basic geography skills to two children with autism. The procedures were taken directly from a standardized training curriculum based in stimulus equivalence theory called Promoting the Emergence of Advanced Knowledge Equivalence Module (PEAK-E). Results suggest that the procedures were efficacious in directly training several geographical relations, as well as promoting the derivation of several untrained relations for three countries and their corresponding continents. In addition, responding generalized from selecting countries on a tabletop paper map to selecting countries on an interactive touchscreen map.

Keywords: Autism; Geography; PEAK; Stimulus equivalence; Verbal behavior.

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Compliance with Ethical StandardsFirst author receives small royalties from sales of the PEAK curriculum.

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Correct responses across conditions for both participants for PEAK-E program 7E – Transitivity: Countries and Continents. Closed symbols represent the A-B, B-C, and C-D train stimuli and open symbols represent the D-A, C-A, and D-B test stimuli
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