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D A Krug

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PubMed1979

A microprocessor-based aid for training autistic children.

This paper describes a unique application of microprocessor technology to training autistic children. Such training presents problems in data collection and reduction. The system described is a training session monitor which accumulates data from a session. The system also generates prompt data and controls the end of a session based on five possible criteria. The accumulated data are then automatically reduced and printed. The evolution of this training session monitor and recorder is reviewed. A description of the hardware and software realization of the final system is presented. The tools and techniques used in the development of the system are discussed. Possibilities for future additional training aids are explored, and improved development tools and techniques are suggested.

Autistic Disorder↗
PubMed1978

Autistic children: a study of learning characteristics and programming needs.

Learning-acquisition characteristics of six autistic children were studied in order to examine programming needs. Two studies were conducted. Study 1 showed that the first step of a color-cued sequencing task required four times more trials to learn than did the remaining five steps, producing a significant learning-to-learn curve. Study 2 confirmed earlier findings that extra-stimulus prompts are comparatively ineffective with autistic children when compared to within-stimulus prompts and showed extra-stimulus prompting to be effective following the use of within-stimulus prompting on a similar task.

Autistic Disorder↗
PubMed1975

Evaluation of a program of systematic instructional procedures for extremely poor retarded children.

A demonstration program was conducted in which 54 innercity children classified as educable mentally retarded were selected on the basis of age, IQ, family income, race, and achievement scores. They were then placed into self-contained classrooms with two classes being taught by precision-teaching procedures and two classes being taught by the methods particular to their teachers. Tesults showed that a high percentage (60 percent) of the children taught by precision-teaching procedured were capable of acquiring the basic skills necessary for regular-class placement.

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