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Evaluation of Video Modeling for Teaching Abduction Prevention Skills to Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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There is little research on teaching abduction prevention skills to children with autism. Video modeling has been shown to be a cost-effective and easy to implement method to teach various skills to children with autism. The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of video modeling for teaching abduction prevention skills to children with autism and evaluate in situ training if video modeling was not successful or if the skills failed to maintain. The results showed that video modeling was effective in teaching all four participants abduction prevention skills and that in situ training was needed to help maintain the skills for one participant.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to recognize and thank the following individuals for their contribution to this study. Without their help in the data collection process and volunteering their time to be confederates, this study could not have been possible: Morgan Scarff, Fran Echeverria, Laura Hanratty, Angela Benitez, Osher Zaafarani, Kelly Pawlisz, Jessica Sierra, Claudia Troconis, Thomas Erickson, Kari Ek, Catherine Czerwanka, and Viviana Gonzalez.

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    Danielle Godish, Raymond Miltenberger & Sindy Sanchez

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Godish, D., Miltenberger, R. & Sanchez, S. Evaluation of Video Modeling for Teaching Abduction Prevention Skills to Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Adv Neurodev Disord 1, 168–175 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41252-017-0026-4

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