CASE STUDY ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A VIDEO STORY-BASED INTERVENTI-ON WITH SELF-MODELING TREATMENT PACKAGE TO REDUCE STEREOTYPICAL SPITTING BEHAVIOR IN A YOUNG GIRL WITH AUTISM

The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of a video story-based intervention with self-modeling to decrease spitting behavior in a female pre-school student with autism during an extended school year ser-vices program. An A-B-A-B design was used to demonstrate a functional relation between a video story-based intervention with self-modeling and decreased spitting be-havior. The results showed that spitting behavior de-crea-sed as a result of the video-based in-ter-vention package. The implications of these re-sults will be explored.