• The current study evaluated the effectiveness of an immersive virtual reality training in teaching street-crossing skills to three autistic children.
• The virtual reality training was found to effectively teach all participants to identify when it is safe to cross the street in the natural environment.
• Immersive virtual reality is a promising treatment modality, particularly for skills involving gestures that may be challenging to target in contrived or natural environment settings.
Dixon, D. R., Miyake, C. J., Nohelty, K., Novack, M. N., & Granpeesheh, D. (2020). Evaluation of an immersive virtual reality safety training used to teach pedestrian skills to children with autism spectrum disorder. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 13(3), 631-640. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-019-00401-1