Abstract:
A listener response training (LRT) procedure was used to teach children with autism spectrum disorder to respond to target questions with multiple variable responses. Target questions were allocated to one of two groups; those in Set 1 were taught using listener response training only; those in Set 2 were taught first using discrete trial training, followed by listener response training. There was some evidence of a weak effect of LRT to increase the variability of responding. However, this was only evident for two of the four participants, and a maintained increase of variability in responding was observed for only one participant, Johnny. The results of this study also suggest that LRT is effective for teaching variable responses to target questions only when a single response to those questions has already been taught using discrete trial training.
