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There exist a number of studies showing the effectiveness of video modelling for persons with autism spectrum disorders. The has been published a studies showing effectiveness in teaching a wide variety of skills, from social skills, self-help skills and community-skills, for details seeVideo Modelling And Behaviour Analysis: A Guide for Teaching Social Skills to Children With Autism.

In this issue of Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Marcus and Wilder published a study comparing the effects on peer video modeling and self video modeling. Self modeling being when the child is watching her or him self performing the task, and peer modeling when the children watch peers performing the tasks.

According to the authors of this article, they have only found one previous study comparing these procedures (Sherer et al., 2001). So this is an area that should be further investigated.

This study found that the self modeling procedure was the most effective, both in reaching the criteria at all, and how fast the children reached the criteria.

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