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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurol Phys Ther. 2017 Jul;41(3):187–197. doi: 10.1097/NPT.0000000000000187

Figure 1.

Figure 1

An example of results from a single-case AB study conducted on one participant with autism; two weeks of observation (baseline phase A) were followed by seven weeks of Floor Time Play (intervention phase B). The outcome measure Circles of Communications (reciprocal communication with two participants responding to each other verbally or nonverbally) served as a behavioral indicator of the child’s social interaction and communication skills (higher scores indicating better performance). A statistically significant improvement in Circles of Communication was found during the intervention phase as compared to the baseline. Note that although a stable baseline is recommended for SC studies, it is not always possible to satisfy this requirement, as you will see in Figures 1–4. Data were extracted from Dionne and Martini (2011)15 utilizing Rohatgi’s WebPlotDigitizer software.78