Improving the Generalization of Skills in Learners with Autism

• By: Cecelia McCarton, MD Mary Jane Weiss, PhD, BCBA-D Ivy Feldman, PhD Jackie Hickie, MA, BCBA The McCarton Foundation
• July 1st, 2009
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Individuals with autism spectrum disorders have many difficulties in learning. One of the consistent characteristics of learners with autism is that they have difficulty transferring skills to new situations and environments and maintaining skills they have mastered. Such difficulties in the...