Cynthia M. Carter

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.