Emergência de relações auditivo-visuais via treino por CRMTS para crianças diagnosticadas com TEA

Abstract

Considering that people diagnosed with autism may have difficulties on auditory stimuli discrimination, making training with auditory specific consequences feasible may help on this repertoire acquisition. This study verified the emergence of auditory-visual control relations after visual-visual training through CRMTS with auditory consequences. Four children diagnosed with ASD with 12 Sentences Reading and Writing previous repertoire participated of this study. Auditory-visual relations with those sentences were tested during baseline (melodies or voices as sample stimuli for sentences construction). Then a visual-visual training was performed (animations as sample stimuli for construction of four from 12 sentences) with auditory consequences (melodies or voices). By the end of each training session, auditory consequences were presented as sample stimulus for 12 sentences construction. Two of four children showed a performance above 80% to auditory-visual relations. Results demonstrate the effectiveness of using CRMTS with auditory consequences for the emergence of auditoryvisual relations with people diagnosed with ASD. Also, they go forward by ensuring classes expansion using specific consequences, high cost responses and sentences.