A Trial-Based Choice Analysis of Food Stealing Consequences in Children with Autism becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside home routines, treatment sessions, interdisciplinary consultation, and health-related skill support. For this course, the practical stakes show up in safe, humane intervention that respects health variables and daily-life feasibility, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →A trial-based choice paradigm was used to examine food stealing across options with and without synthesized social consequences for 18 primarily autistic children. Ten children stole from the option lacking social consequences suggesting automatic reinforcement. Six children stole from both options suggesting multiple control. One child stole exclusively from the synthesized contingency suggesting social reinforcement, and one child refrained from stealing. Overall, stealing maintained without social consequences for 16 of 17 (94.1%) children. In eight cases, stealing either failed to maintain (suggesting extinction or punishment effects) or never occurred when synthesized contingencies were examined in isolation. Our results corroborate views expressed by Zhou et al. (2023) and further a literature base (e.g., Lambert et al., 2019; Simmons et al., 2019) suggesting that children's food stealing may largely be automatically reinforced such that modified functional analysis screening methods are advised, although clarifying analyses may be required when multiple control is suggested.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
Brandon has nearly 30 years of experience providing behavior analysis services to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Brandon previously served as the West Region student representative for TABA and was one of this organization's first secretaries. During his career, Brandon has held clinical, consulting, and management-level positions in behavioral services. Brandon’s research, mostly focusing on the assessment and treatment of severe problem behavior, has been published in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, and he has served on the Board of Editors for these journals. Currently, Brandon serves as Statewide Director of Behavioral Services for Support Solutions, LLC.
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