Based on What Is Known About the Characteristics of Autism

question 82

Multiple Choice

Based on what is known about the characteristics of autism, which of the following therapy techniques would be most effective in encouraging a child with autism to make appropriate eye contact with a therapist?

• A) play therapy, where the child with autism could first see eye contact modelled with dolls
• B) behavioural modelling, where the child with autism could watch as an adult and a child without autism modelled eye contact
• C) reinforcement with food, where a therapist could give a small food reward each time the child with autism made appropriate eye contact
• D) drug therapy, where the child with autism would be put on a GABA agonist medication to reduce self-stimulatory behaviours; reducing inappropriate behaviours can lead to the expression of more appropriate behaviours like making eye contact

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