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Cynthia M. Carter
Researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara
Publications - 5
Citations - 856
Cynthia M. Carter is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Barbara. The author has contributed to research in topics: Autism & Multiple baseline design. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications receiving 807 citations.
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Pivotal Response Intervention I: Overview of Approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of pivotal response interventions, focusing on identifying pivotal areas that, when changed, result in concomitant positive changes in other areas, including self-management and self-initiations.
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Teaching Children with Autism Self-Initiations as a Pivotal Response.
TL;DR: This article assessed whether children with autism could be taught a child-initiated query as a pivotal response to facilitate the use of grammatical morphemes using a multiple baseline design.
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Pivotal Teaching Interactions for Children with Autism
TL;DR: In this paper, effective teaching interactions in the treatment of autism with a focus on pivotal target behaviors are discussed, specifically in behaviorally oriented intervention approaches, where the authors focus on the pivotal target behaviours.
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Using Choice with Game Play to Increase Language Skills and Interactive Behaviors in Children with Autism
TL;DR: For example, children with autism often exhibit significant language delays and extremely disruptive behaviors when confronted with task situations or other interactions in which they would rather not partake as discussed by the authors, which can result in significant language delay.
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Pivotal Responses and the Natural Language Teaching Paradigm
TL;DR: variable related to child choice, the use of natural reinforcers, the interspersal of maintenance trials to build behavioral momentum, and reinforcing communicative attempts can be considerable in terms of rate of acquisition, generalization of gains, and normalization of language development.