Online ISSN: 2325-7466
2006
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National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET)
United States

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Using the “ASKED” Model to Contrive Motivations and Teach Individuals with ASD to Ask wh-Questions in Natural Settings

  • Cheryl Ostryn, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LBA (Author) Center for Applied Behavior Analysis The Sage Colleges image/svg+xml
    Dr. Cheryl Ostryn received her doctoral degree in Special Education (focus Autism and Applied Behavior Analysis) from The Pennsylvania State University and completed her post-doctoral work at The University of Colorado, Denver. She is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctoral (BCBA-D), a Professor of Applied Behavior Analysis at The Sage Colleges, and a board member of The Autism Society of The Greater Capital Region in NY. Dr. Ostryn has published in several scientific journals, the Young Exceptional Children Monograph series, the Autism Advocate, co-authored a chapter on functional academics, several grant-funded papers, and has presented her research both nationally and internationally. Her main research interests include teaching functional communication to individuals with autism using a model of Verbal Behavior.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.64546/jaasep.310
Abstract
Individuals with ASD are less likely to engage in social mands, such as wh-question asking, even though this skill is demonstrated in those without ASD as young as 18 months. Therefore, teaching wh-questions to individuals with ASD is an important element in the development of any communication program. This is the third published study in a series of wh-question asking studies, and utilizes the ASKED model in order to teach two wh-questions to individuals with ASD in natural environments. The ASKED model describes a systematic procedure for setting up environments in order to motivate and teach question asking, including the use of prompts and data collection. This study employed naturally occurring communicative partners to implement the ASKED model in a variety of natural settings, and results showed positive effects across all seven participants.
Keywords
Autism, Cues, Elementary School Students, Instruction, Interpersonal Communication, Motivation
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How to Cite
Ostryn, C. (2016). Using the “ASKED” Model to Contrive Motivations and Teach Individuals with ASD to Ask wh-Questions in Natural Settings. Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 11(2), 100-114. https://doi.org/10.64546/jaasep.310

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