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Does Using Children's Literature and Social Stories Help Students With Autism to Decrease Inappropriate Behaviors?

Begue, Whitney
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363355317

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2013, Master of Education (MEd), Bowling Green State University, Reading.
The purpose of the study was to determine whether inappropriate behaviors in students with autism can be decreased through children’s literature and Social Stories that address the behaviors. The research question guiding this study was, “Does using children’s literature and Social Stories help students with autism to decrease inappropriate behaviors?” The study’s participant was one third-grade student with autism. The study took place over four weeks. During the first week, the researcher observed the student in his classroom setting to establish a baseline of the student’s behavior. The researcher read the stories with the student twice a week over three weeks. The researcher went into the student’s school two days a week for one hour. The stories were read with the student for 10 minutes and then a 50-minute observation followed. Qualitative data were collected through observations. Quantitative data collection included counting the opportunities the student had to engage in the inappropriate behavior and the amount of times he did engage in the inappropriate behavior. This number was converting it to a percentage. The student steadily decreased the number of times he engaged in the inappropriate targeted behavior after beginning interventions. The percent of time the student engaged in the behavior provided evidence of the connection. Overall, the data support that there was a decrease in the inappropriate targeted behavior over four weeks by reading Social Stories and children’s literature stories to the student.
Cindy Hendricks, Dr. (Advisor)
Lessie Cochran, Dr. (Committee Member)
Mark Earley, Dr. (Committee Member)
91 p.
Education; Reading Instruction
Autism; Social Stories; Children's literature; Reading; Inappropriate behaviors

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  • Begue, W. (2013). Does Using Children's Literature and Social Stories Help Students With Autism to Decrease Inappropriate Behaviors? [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363355317

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Begue, Whitney. Does Using Children's Literature and Social Stories Help Students With Autism to Decrease Inappropriate Behaviors? 2013. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363355317.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Begue, Whitney. "Does Using Children's Literature and Social Stories Help Students With Autism to Decrease Inappropriate Behaviors?" Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363355317

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