The Effectiveness of Antecedents Control and Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behaviors in Reducing Screen Time on an Adolescent with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Single-case Design
- DOI
- 10.2991/iciap-18.2019.4How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- antecedents control, differential reinforcement of alternative behaviors (DRA), autism spectrum disorder.
- Abstract
Studies on normal children’s and adolescents’ use of intervention techniques to reduce screen media usage have recently gained much attention. However, studies on screen time reduction intervention in children with developmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), have been scarce. Compared to the typical population, children with ASD spend more time on screen media and are thus at greater risk of its physical and psychological consequences. This paper aimed to investigate the effectiveness of behavior modification techniques, specifically antecedent control and differential reinforcement of alternative behaviors (DRA), in reducing screen time for an adolescent male aged 12 years and 9 months with mild ASD. Previous research on normally developed children showed inconsistent results on the application of these techniques. In this study, technique effectiveness was evaluated by collecting and comparing pretreatment and post-treatment data. The results showed that both techniques could reduce participants’ screen time duration by 55%.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Elisabeth Santoso AU - Mayke Sugianto Tedjasaputra PY - 2019/08 DA - 2019/08 TI - The Effectiveness of Antecedents Control and Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behaviors in Reducing Screen Time on an Adolescent with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Single-case Design BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intervention and Applied Psychology (ICIAP 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 50 EP - 59 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iciap-18.2019.4 DO - 10.2991/iciap-18.2019.4 ID - Santoso2019/08 ER -