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The Use of Social Stories as a Preventative Behavioral Intervention in a Home Setting with a Child with Autism

Overland Park, KS

Richard L. Simpson

University of Kansas

Brenda Smith Myles

University of Kansas

Jennifer B. Ganz

University of Kansas

The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of a social story intervention implemented in a home setting to decrease precursors to tantrum behavior in a 5-year-old boy with autism. Using an ABAB design, two social stories were presented and withdrawn while using an event recording procedure in which interrupting verbalizations, determined to be precursors to tantrum behavior, were tallied. Data revealed a decrease in interrupting verbalizations and tantrums when the social stories were available and an increase in these behaviors when the social stories were withdrawn.

Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, Vol. 4, No. 1, 53-60 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/109830070200400109


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