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This study evaluated the effects of within stimulus prompting and prompt fading to teach four preschool children with autism picture symbol discrimination using an iPad® and the Proloqu2Go application as a speech-generating device. Participants were taught to discriminate between a progressively more complex field of picture-symbols depicted on the screen of an iPad with a five-phased training procedure. All participants acquired discrimination between picture-symbols while using the iPad to mand for preferred items in a field of four picture-symbols. The results provide tentative support for a procedure to teach children with autism to discriminate between picture symbols while manding using a handheld speech-generating device.
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Lorah, E.R., Crouser, J., Gilroy, S.P. et al. Within Stimulus Prompting to Teach Symbol Discrimination Using an iPad® Speech Generating Device. J Dev Phys Disabil 26, 335–346 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10882-014-9369-1
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