Degree Discipline

The Effects of Parent Training on the Amount and Variety of Food Consumed By a Child with Autism.

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The current study assessed the effectiveness of a training package, delivered in the form of a manual, to teach a parent to increase the variety and amount of food consumed by her son. The participant was a 5-year-old boy with Pervasive Developmental Disorder and limited food consumption. A changing criterion design across two variables, variety of food and quantity of food, was used. Results were that the parent who used the manual, with limited assistance from the experimenter, did succeed in increasing food variety and quantity of target foods.
Date: May 2004
Creator: VanKirk, Tessa Schreiber
System: The UNT Digital Library