Abstract
The current study focused on investigating the efficacy of discrete trial
training (DTT) program in the development of social initiations and social
responding in an adolescent girl with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A
single-subject experimental research design with four treatment phases and
two follow-up periods was used for this research to meet the formulated
objectives of the current research. Enrolled children with ASD in govt.
special education centers across the Punjab province of Pakistan were the
population of the study. An adolescent girl of sixteen years diagnosed with
ASD was chosen as the participant of the study. The participant was the
minimal verbal adolescent with ASD and required support (level 1 of
severity) observed on DSM-5 by the psychologist. The researchers planned
to execute DTT and therefore manipulated it as an independent variable
over developing social initiations and social responding skills taken as
dependent variables under specified treatment conditions to investigate the
extent of the program and the best-fitted context for developing these skills
within the one-on-one structured format of DTT. The researchers
employed descriptive analysis to find out percentages and visual analysis
such asline charts drawn on Microsoft excel to show skill development for
social initiations and social responding. The obtained results indicated that
social initiations and social responding can be developed with less or more
levels of achievement across all designed treatment conditions but more
specifically social initiations can be developed during phase E and social
responding can be developed during phase C of this study. The study may
influence the existing system of dealing with children with ASD inside the
premises of Govt. Special Education Centers/Schools across the province
of Punjab, Pakistan
Hina Hadayat Ali, Hina Fazil, PhD. (2022) Efficacy of Discrete Trial Training in Developing SocialCommunication Skills in Children with Autism, Journal of Behavioural Sciences, volume-32, issue 1.
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