Abstract
Study objective: To teach a child with autism spectrum disorder to transfer and acquire intraverbal skills from matching, reading, and listening using multiple exemplar training. Design: Multiple baseline design. Setting: A special needs classroom. All procedures were conducted there individually, face-to-face, across a desk. Participants: 1 sixth-grade boy with autism spectrum disorder and a severe intellectual disability. Independent variables: 3 tasks with multiple examples: (a) matching to sample, (b) reading, and (c) listening to instructions, which were alternated with intraverbal training. Measure: The percentage of correct responses to the stimulus set in each trial. Results: Intraverbals without a history of reinforcement were transferred from matching to sample and reading and acquired from listening to instructions through multiple exemplar training. Conclusion: After the multiple exemplar training was implemented, the participant acquired and transferred intraverbal skills. However, the procedure was complicated. In order to be suitable for practical use, the teaching method must be simplified.
