Young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who engage in elopement are at a greater risk for aberrant behaviors due to a reduced ability to practice social skills and engage in learning opportunities. Because of their difficulty in these areas, aberrant behaviors tend to increase, such as elopement, aggression, self-injury, or tantrum related behaviors. With this, interventions targeting early prosocial behavior, such as the use of classroom preventive practices, are crucial for young children with autism to guide them to independence, connect with those around them, and achieve positive life outcomes. The experimental design of this study was a nonconcurrent multiple baseline design with embedded withdrawal across three participants. The intervention implemented aimed to address escaped-maintained behaviors (i.e., elopement). Results of this study revealed that targeting a child's function of behavior increased prosocial behavior and decreased aberrant behavior for two young children.
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