Making lighting adjustments to establish new behavioral patterns in a child with autism: A follow-up study.
Objectives Acknowledging the importance of lighting adjustment (a less-studied aspect of the environmental modification), this study showed novel effects of black light conditions, where white objects became part of the foreground of a blackened environment to train a child with autism to master a s...
| Published in: | Iranian Journal of Child Neurology Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 143 - 149 |
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| Format: | case study research Journal Article |
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Iranian Journal of Child Neurology
Spring2022
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| Summary: | Objectives Acknowledging the importance of lighting adjustment (a less-studied aspect of the environmental modification), this study showed novel effects of black light conditions, where white objects became part of the foreground of a blackened environment to train a child with autism to master a series of self-care tasks. This follow-up study provided details about how training progressed under black light conditions to teach the child a second task called self-feeding. The process of training self-feeding for this child was undergone after the child mastered the self-care task of toothbrushing. Healthcare practitioners may want to illuminate overlooked aspects of the non-human environment, which may be ignored by children with autism, to stimulate interest in objects following lighting adjustments. |
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