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Esposito M, Dipierro MT, Mondani F, et al. Stimulus-Stimulus-Pairing to Reduce Stereotypies in Three Children with Autism during Movie Watching. Behav Sci (Basel). 2021;11(12)doi: 10.3390/bs11120165.
Esposito, M., Dipierro, M. T., Mondani, F., Iurato, G., Mirizzi, P., Mazza, M., & Valenti, M. (2021). Stimulus-Stimulus-Pairing to Reduce Stereotypies in Three Children with Autism during Movie Watching. Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 11(12), . https://doi.org/10.3390/bs11120165
Esposito, Marco, et al. "Stimulus-Stimulus-Pairing to Reduce Stereotypies in Three Children with Autism during Movie Watching." Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) vol. 11,12 (2021). doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/bs11120165
Esposito M, Dipierro MT, Mondani F, Iurato G, Mirizzi P, Mazza M, Valenti M. Stimulus-Stimulus-Pairing to Reduce Stereotypies in Three Children with Autism during Movie Watching. Behav Sci (Basel). 2021 Nov 30;11(12). doi: 10.3390/bs11120165. PMID: 34940100.
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Behav Sci (Basel). 2021 Nov 30;11(12). doi: 10.3390/bs11120165.

Stimulus-Stimulus-Pairing to Reduce Stereotypies in Three Children with Autism during Movie Watching.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)

Marco Esposito, Maria Teresa Dipierro, Federica Mondani, Giulia Iurato, Paolo Mirizzi, Monica Mazza, Marco Valenti

Affiliations

  1. Department of Applied Clinical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of L'Aquila, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
  2. Autism Research and Treatment Centre, Una Breccia Nel Muro, 00168 Roma, Italy.
  3. C.S.R. Sicilian Rehabilitation Consortium, 97016 Pozzallo, Italy.
  4. Department of Psychology, University of Bari, 70121 Bari, Italy.
  5. Regional Centre for Autism, Abruzzo Region Health System, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.

PMID: 34940100 DOI: 10.3390/bs11120165

Abstract

Autism spectrum disorders represent a challenge for professionals, who must include in their individualized educational interventions goals for core symptoms (social-communication and stereotypies/restricted interests) and comorbidities. The narrowness of interests and the high frequency of repetitive behaviors in children with autism often constitute an obstacle for learning and the quality of life, and for their caregivers as well. In the scientific literature, behavioral interventions based on both aversive and, less commonly, positive procedures have been implemented to reduce the frequency of stereotypies. The following study was carried out with the intention of replicating a Stimulus-Stimulus Pairing procedure applied by Nuzzolo-Gomez, Leonard, Ortiz, Rivera and Greer (2002) in order to reduce stereotypies in children. This procedure was applied to three children diagnosed with autism aged five, almost six and seven years, in order to reduce stereotypies when children watched movies. An A-B-A experimental design with three subjects was used for this research. The results showed a decrease in stereotypies in favor of appropriate behaviors.

Keywords: applied behavior analysis; autism spectrum disorders; challenging behaviors; stereotypies; stimulus-stimulus pairing

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