ASSESSING NONVERBAL SAME/DIFFERENT JUDGMENTS OF AUDITORY STIMULI IN INDIVIDUALS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES: A METHODOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION
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https://doi.org/10.18542/rebac.v5i2.931Abstract
This methodological paper reports an initial attempt to evaluate the feasibility and utility of a nonverbal task for assessing generalized same/different judgments of auditory stimuli in individuals with intellectual disabilities. Study 1 asked whether participants could readily acquire a baseline of auditory same/different, go-left/go-right performance with minimal prompting. Sample stimuli consisted of pairs of successively presented sine-wave tones. If the tones were identical, selections of a visual stimulus on the left side of the computer screen were reinforced. If the tones were different, selections of a visual stimulus on the right side of the computer screen were reinforced. Two of five participants readily acquired the task, generalized performance to other stimuli, and completed a rudimentary protocol for examining auditory discriminations that are potentially more difficult than those used to establish the initial task. In Study 2, two participants who could not perform the “go-left/go-right” task with tone stimuli, but could do so with spoken-word stimuli, successfully transferred control by spoken words to tones via an auditory superimposition-and-fading procedure. The findings support the feasibility of using the task as a general-purpose auditory discrimination assessment.Keywords: auditory discrimination, go-left/go-right, intellectual disabilities, matching to sample, superimposition and fading.Downloads
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2012-08-29
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