{"title":"Using self-stimulation as reinforcement for autistic children.","authors":"D W Hung","doi":"10.1007/BF01539637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01539637","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This experiment examined the effects of using self-stimulatory behavior as reinforcement for spontaneous appropriate sentences in two autistic children. The children were put on a token system and always received one token for every spontaneous appropriate sentence they made. An ABABA design was employed. In condition A, the opportunity to self-stimulate was contingent on the payment of tokens (two tokens for 2 minutes of self-stimulation). In condition B, no tokens were required for self-stimulation. The results showed that both subjects exhibited a much higher rate of spontaneous appropriate sentences during the contingent self-stimulation (A) condition, demonstrating that self-stimulation functioned as an effective reinforcement. The possibility of using self-stimulation as reinforcement in the treatment of autistic children is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 3","pages":"355-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF01539637","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11890786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kaspar Hauser's recovery and autopsy: a perspective on neurological and sociological requirements for language development.","authors":"N Simon","doi":"10.1007/BF01537870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537870","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The feral children literature has frequently been cited for relevance to understanding historical antecedents of autism. Kaspar Hauser, who appeared in Nuremberg, Germany in 1828, is one of these children, raised under conditions of extreme deprivation. His case history and gradual acquisition of language after age 17 years are summarized. There is strong evidence that he was the prince of Baden, abducted from his cradle in 1812. Findings of postmortem examination, conducted after his assassination, are discussed. Hauser's postadolescent recovery of language contradicts the notion of a \"critical period\" for language development.</p>","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"209-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF01537870","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11562728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constance Torisky's response to Frank Warren's response.","authors":"C V Torisky","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"247-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11871347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On confusion in the diagnosis of autism.","authors":"E Schopler","doi":"10.1007/BF01537862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537862","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"137-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF01537862","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11871461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"National Society for Autistic Children definition of the syndrome of autism.","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/BF01537864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537864","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is helpful for the new student of autism to know the clinical and research basis from which our definition of the syndrome has been evolved. The main features and characteristics are no less meaningful for being recognized as working definitions, subject to alteration with the discovery of new knowledge about causation and treatment. Such research can be most useful, even when samples of autistic children with different specific characteristics are selected. However, it is necessary for the specific characteristics, and their selection purpose, to be identified explicitly. Likewise, the limits of applying the findings on such subsamples to other autistic children should be frankly acknowledged.</p>","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"162-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF01537864","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11871462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rights of the handicapped.","authors":"J Fenichel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"243-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11368177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The need for sharing.","authors":"C Hansen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"242-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11871344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The child as victim.","authors":"F Warren","doi":"10.1007/BF01537876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537876","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"240-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF01537876","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11871468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The importance of choice.","authors":"J Carlson-Leavitt","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"243-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11871345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Working for all the autistic.","authors":"R Fredricks","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"245-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11871346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}