A COMPARISION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO DIFFERENT PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK ON AUTISTIC STUDENTS’ LETTER WRITING AND LETTER LINE DRAWING SKILLS

Performance feedback means providing students with information on their performance. this study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of two different performance feedback on increasing the number of letters and lines drawn by autistic students independently. two types of feedback, verbal and graphic feedback were used in the study. a total of three students two boys and a girl who attended sabahat akşıray education center for autistic children located in menemen, izmir were participated in the study. one of the participants was a 10 years old, while the other two participants were 11 years old. a single subject, adapted alternating treatments desing was used to compare the effects of two performance feedback. the result of the study showed that the graphic feedback was effective on increasing the total number of letters and lines drawn by all participating student independently. implications of the result were discussed and suggestions for practice and future research were presented.