Análise Comparativa da Eficácia da Equivalência de Estímulos, Reforçamento Automático e Reforçamento Direto na Aquisição do Nomear em Crianças com Atraso de Linguagem.

Abstract

The present study conducted a comparative analysis of three different procedures, Stimulus Equivalence, Automatic Reinforcement and Direct Reinforcement. Its aim was to investigate the efficacy of these procedures for naming acquisition. Six children who were between five and eleven years old with moderate language delay participated. Nine stimuli were selected for each participant, three for each procedure. Findings do not suggest that there is a substantial difference between the participants´performance in the experiments; therefore one can not affirm that a procedure is better than the other. The results indicate that the difference in the children s repertoire is a relevant factor to understand the disparity of results found in this study.