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Behavior analysts are still suppressing echolalia in autism?--"any echolalic response" resulted in autistics (age 3 years) being told to "shh" or being ignored "until the participant was free from this behavior for 3 consecutive seconds" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ABA in 2025, COIs

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Rachel E. Kaye, Joseph Vedora, Daniel Almeida, Nicole DeRosa (2025). Using Antecedent and Functional Analyses to Conduct a Treatment Comparison on Echolalia. Behavioral Interventions, 40(4), e70052. Wiley.

Publication date
10 Oct 2025
Identifier
10.1002/bin.70052
Authors
Rachel E. Kaye, Joseph Vedora, Daniel Almeida, Nicole DeRosa
Source
Behavioral Interventions
Details
40(4), e70052
Reference type
article
Publisher
Wiley
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Abstract

ABSTRACT Immediate echolalia is a communication excess often associated with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Most studies evaluating immediate echolalia have focused on antecedent manipulations to address deficits in stimulus control. However, most research on function‐based interventions for immediate echolalia has focused on antecedent analyses to hypothesize the potential maintaining variable, without including a functional analysis (FA) to formally evaluate the maintaining variable of immediate echolalia. The purpose of the current study was to extend the antecedent analyses that have been previously used to develop interventions for immediate echolalia and determine if a maintaining variable for immediate echolalia could be determined through a functional analysis. In the second phase of the study, an alternating treatments design was used to compare the effectiveness of a nonfunction based intervention to a function‐based intervention.

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