This study examined the effectiveness of video modeled social story interventions for children diagnosed with autism to improve their social communication behaviors (seeking attention, initiating comments, initiating requests, and contingent responses...
This study examined the effectiveness of video modeled social story interventions for children diagnosed with autism to improve their social communication behaviors (seeking attention, initiating comments, initiating requests, and contingent responses) and social interaction behaviors (appropriate social interaction behaviors, inappropriate social interaction behaviors, absence of social interaction behaviors). Three of elementary school children with autism, the age of 8 and 10, participated in the study.
Using a multiple probe design across subjects, the video modeled social story intervention was implemented to the subject. The dependent measures for each subject consisted of specific target behaviors that occurred in baseline, intervention, maintenance, and generalization contexts. visual analysis, average and standard deviation, inclination, overlapping data were examined.
The results of this study showed as follows. First, the intervention improved the frequency of social communication behaviors with all the subjects. The frequency of social communication behaviors with all the subjects was very low in the state of baseline stage, but when the intervention was introduced to each of the subjects, its frequency increased rapidly and maintained that way even after the intervention had been finished. And the proportion of the overlapping data by each stages was very low. And in generalization condition, the changed behaviors were generalized toward the other children of their age.
Second, the intervention showed effectiveness in increase in the proportion of appropriate social interaction behaviors with all the subjects. As the intervention session were advancing, the proportion of appropriate social interaction behaviors was rapidly increased while relatively, the proportion of the absence of social interaction behaviors was promptly decreased. And in the stage of maintenance after the intervention has been closed, the state remained intact. The increased level of the appropriate social interaction behaviors were generalized to different environments.
The results of the study suggests that the video modeled social story intervention may have effectiveness to improve appropriate behaviors in social contexts for children with autism spectrum disorders. Additionally, the intervention may have effectiveness in managing social behaviors for children with autism spectrum disorders.