Differential observing responses: a systematic review
Abstract
Some individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) respond inaccurately on conditional discrimination tasks involving matching to sample procedures (MTS). Differential observing responses (DOR) have been effective at increasing discriminated responding of relevant features of stimuli on these tasks (Farber, Dickson, and Dube, 2017). However, there is conflicting evidence of successful conditional discrimination when this procedure has been removed and the longer-term implications of this procedure are unknown (Walpole, Roscoe, and Dube, 2007). The purpose of the current review was to evaluate previous research investigating the effects of DOR procedures in learners with ASD and other developmental disabilities. Fifteen articles were included, and results indicated expressive DOR procedures more commonly maintained accurate responding relative to receptive DORs. Furthermore, only five of the articles selected met high quality standards.
Degree
M.S.