@article{article_624016, title={Massed versus Embedded Trial Arrangements: Teaching Community Signs to Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder}, journal={Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi Özel Eğitim Dergisi}, volume={22}, pages={61–85}, year={2021}, DOI={10.21565/ozelegitimdergisi.624016}, author={Şahin, Şerife and Özen, Arzu}, keywords={constant time delay, massed trial arrangements, embedded trial arrangements, community signs}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 12pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;"> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">The aim of this study is to compare the effectiveness and efficiency of teaching the meaning of community signs with massed trial arrangements (MTA) and embedded trial arrangements (ETA) using constant time delay intervention. The constant time delay intervention was used two different arrangements; MTA versus ETA. The study was conduct with four boys with  <a> </a> <a>Autism Spectrum Disorder </a>, aged between 44-64 months. An adapted alternating design was used. The two arrangements were equally effective in terms of the number of sessions required for participants to learn the meaning of the signs. However, MTA sessions were much shorter. The study asked participants’ preferred arrangement; two chose MTA and two chose ETA. </span> </p> <p> </p>}, number={1}, publisher={Ankara University}