An Intervention Study On Disruptive Behaviors Of Children With Autism

Because of the deficit in social communication, the children with autism are being accompanied with disruptive behaviors during the lecture. The disruptive behaviors not only impede the study of children with autism, but also disturb the management of the classroom. The Functional Behavior Analysis holds the view that the function of the disruptive behaviors during lecture is expression and social communication. If the inappropriate behaviors were replaced by appropriate behaviors, the problem behaviors will be reduced. Video modeling is a technique which involves demonstration of desired behaviors through video representation of the behaviors. It is based on the theory of Observational Learning of Bandura, and belongs to the area of the behavior intervention. This research applied the technique of video modeling to intervene the disruptive behaviors of children with autism during lecture based on the FBA, as to explore the feasibility of using video modeling to intervene the disruptive behaviors of children with autism.This research chose four children with autism in special school as participants. Determined the replacement behaviors of the problem behaviors based on the FBA of the disruptive behaviors during lecture respectively, and then film the appropriate behaviors including the replacement behaviors needed to be learned by participants. Play the video for the participants every week combined with some training and intervention to probe the feasibility of using video modeling to intervene the disruptive behaviors of children with autism and the effect of video modeling for the behavioral intervention with different function. Further, this research represented the self-model and others-model alternately and analyzed the two different forms of video modeling and characters of the ability of participants to explore the influencing factors of the intervention which used video modeling to intervene the disruptive behaviors of children with autism.The conclusions are as follows:1. The present research determined the replacement behaviors of the problem behaviors based on the FBA of the severe disruptive behaviors of four children with autism in special schools, and intervened the disruptive behaviors using the technique of video modeling. The results indicate that the problem behaviors of three children with autism were improved;2. The intervention is more effect for the problem behaviors with sensory stimulating function than social positive reinforcement function;3. The video self-modeling is more effective than video others-modeling;4. The form of video modeling, the function of behaviors, the ability of cognition and animation of children and if the participants pay close attention to the video influence the change of the problem behaviors.