Kathleen M. Clark & Gina Green (2004). Comparison of two procedures for teaching dictated-word/symbol relations to learners with autism. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 37, 503-507.

The efficacy of exclusion and delayed-cue procedures for establishing novel dictated-word/symbol relations with 2 boys with autism was compared using computerized match-to-sample procedures. Acquisition of the relations under the two training conditions was compared via an alternating treatments design. The delayed-cue procedure was more efficacious than the exclusion procedure in four of five comparisons across participants.

DESCRIPTORS: autism, delayed cue, exclusion