Social and communicative deficits are one of the hallmark traits of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). One of the deficits associated with ASD is attending to a social partner in response to name. Responding to name is important for safety and social reasons. Though responding to name is seen as incredibly important and is often one of the first skills targeted in a child's program, current strategies focus on teaching this response at an instructional table and do not promote generalization to a more natural environment. Video modeling has been demonstrated to be an efficient and least intrusive method of prompting for children with ASD because it limits the number of stimuli in the environment. Point-of-view video modeling further limits the number or stimuli and may prove to be effective in teaching the discrete skill of attending to an adult in response to name. A multiple probe design was utilized to determine the efficacy of using a point-of-view video modeling to teach three young children with ASD to respond to their name. Due to the COVID-19, the current study was terminated before the experiment could be completed. Of the collected data, there is some evidence to support the use of point-of-view video models as a method for teaching attending in response to name to children with ASD.
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