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The current study focused on investigating the efficacy of discrete trial training (DTT) program in the development of social initiations and social responding in an adolescent girl with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A single-subject experimental research design with four treatment phases and two follow-up periods was used for this research to meet the formulated objectives of the current research. Enrolled children with ASD in govt. special education centers across the Punjab province of Pakistan were the population of the study. An adolescent girl of sixteen years diagnosed with ASD was chosen as the participant of the study. The participant was the minimal verbal adolescent with ASD and required support (level 1 of severity) observed on DSM-5 by the psychologist. The researchers planned to execute DTT and therefore manipulated it as an independent variable over developing social initiations and social responding skills taken as dependent variables under specified treatment conditions to investigate the extent of the program and the best-fitted context for developing these skills within the one-on-one structured format of DTT. The researchers employed descriptive analysis to find out percentages and visual analysis such asline charts drawn on Microsoft excel to show skill development for social initiations and social responding. The obtained results indicated that social initiations and social responding can be developed with less or more levels of achievement across all designed treatment conditions but more specifically social initiations can be developed during phase E and social responding can be developed during phase C of this study. The study may influence the existing system of dealing with children with ASD inside the premises of Govt. Special Education Centers/Schools across the province of Punjab, Pakistan

Hina Hadayat Ali, Hina Fazil, PhD. (2022) Efficacy of Discrete Trial Training in Developing SocialCommunication Skills in Children with Autism, Journal of Behavioural Sciences, volume-32, issue 1.
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