Use of an iPad play story to increase play dialogue of preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Academic Article

abstract

• An iPad play story was utilized to increase the pretend play skills of 4 preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders. The story utilized a series of video clips depicting toy figures producing scripted character dialogue, engaged in a pretend play vignette. A multiple baseline design across participants was utilized with play dialogue as the dependent variable. Three of the participants demonstrated increases in the target behavior with Nonoverlap of All Pairs analysis revealing moderate and strong effects across intervention phases. Effects were largely maintained during generalization opportunities with peers and during a 3-week follow-up condition.

authors

• Ganz, J. Birdie

published proceedings

• J Autism Dev Disord

altmetric score

• 41.25

author list (cited authors)

• Murdock, L. C., Ganz, J., & Crittendon, J.

citation count

• 90

complete list of authors

• Murdock, Linda C||Ganz, Jennifer||Crittendon, Jessica

publication date

• September 2013

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders  Journal

keywords

• Child Development Disorders, Pervasive
• Child, Preschool
• Communication
• Generalization, Psychological
• Humans
• Male
• Peer Group
• Play And Playthings
• Social Behavior
• Therapy, Computer-Assisted
• Treatment Outcome

PubMed Central ID

• 23371509

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/s10803-013-1770-6

start page

• 2174

end page

• 2189

volume

• 43

issue

• 9