Normal Peer Models and Autistic Children's Learning.

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Autism; Exceptional Child Research; Imitation; Mainstreaming; Models; Observational Learning; Peer Influence; Young Children

The investigation systematically assessed whether four autistic children (5 to 7 years old) would improve their learning of discrimination tasks if they observed normal children perform the task correctly. In each case, the peer modeling procedure produced rapid achievement of the acquisition criterion which was maintained after the peer models were removed. (Author/DB)

1981

EJ243971