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Cengher, Mirela; Ramazon, Nicholas H.; Strohmeier, Craig W. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2020
Members (behaviors) of a response class are equivalent in that they produce the same functional reinforcer. Oftentimes, some members of a response class occur at higher rates than others. This can be problematic when the members that occur at high rates are socially inappropriate (e.g., self-injury, aggression, or disruption). The participant in…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Adolescents, Females, Autism
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Miguel, Caio F. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2017
The mand is a type of verbal operant whose response form is under control of a motivating operation (MO). It is the first verbal operant to be acquired, directly benefits the speaker, leads to the development of other behaviors, and may serve to replace problem behavior. Even though the topography of the mand is under the functional control of an…
Descriptors: Verbal Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement, Stimuli, Motivation
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Schlinger, Henry D., Jr. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2017
In the present essay, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the publication of B. F. Skinner's "Verbal Behavior", I stand by and defend the judgment I expressed in my article "The Long Goodbye: Why B. F. Skinner's 'Verbal Behavior' Is Alive and Well on the 50th Anniversary of Its Publication" (2008c)--that Skinner's…
Descriptors: Reflection, Verbal Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement, Behavior Modification
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Cariveau, Tom; Shillingsburg, M. Alice; Alamoudi, Arwa; Thompson, Taylor; Bartlett, Brittany; Gillespie, Scott; Scahill, Lawrence – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2020
Access to early intensive behavioral intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder is commonly recommended. Intervention programs may include high rates of instructional trials, which may evoke escape-maintained problem behavior. Recent research on "pairing" or "rapport-building" interventions have sought to reduce…
Descriptors: Young Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention
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Silbaugh, Bryant C.; Swinnea, Samantha; Falcomata, Terry S. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2020
More is known about how to reduce challenging behavior with functional communication training (FCT) than how to mitigate its resurgence during or following a course of treatment. Research suggests reinforcing mand variability during FCT may mitigate the resurgence of challenging behavior, but validated procedures for reinforcing mand variability…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification, Communication Skills, Reinforcement
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Suberman, Rachel; Cividini-Motta, Catia – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2020
Individuals with developmental disabilities often do not develop vocal repertoires, thus requiring the use of augmentative devices. Teaching caregivers to conduct communication training with their children may be one way to foster communication with their device in the natural environment. This study replicates Rosales, Stone and Rehfeldt (2009),…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Caregivers, Caregiver Role
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Sundberg, Mark L. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2017
Jack Michael offered a course on verbal behavior almost every year throughout his teaching career. Jack was also interested in the application of Skinner's work and in 1976 began to offer a graduate course at Western Michigan University titled Verbal Behavior Applications. Jack and his students pursued the application of Skinner's work on verbal…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Verbal Operant Conditioning, Behavior Theories, Reinforcement
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Kahlow, Talia A.; Sidener, Tina M.; Kisamore, April N.; Reeve, Kenneth F. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2019
People diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may need specific teaching to learn mands for information. Unfortunately, little research has been published on methods for teaching the mand "When?" to this population. The purpose of the current study was to replicate and extend previous research by teaching 3 children diagnosed with…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Verbal Operant Conditioning
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Akers, Jessica S.; Retzlaff, Billie J.; Fisher, Wayne W.; Greer, Brian D.; Kaminski, Ami J.; DeSouza, Andresa A. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2019
Most verbal behavior curricula for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) focus on teaching multiple mands during the early stages of training (e.g., picture exchange communication system; Bondy & Frost, 1994). However, few, if any, of those curricula train children with ASD to differentially mand only for reinforcers that are reasonable…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Training
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Tapp, Melissa C.; Pennington, Robert C.; Clausen, Amy M.; Carpenter, Megan E. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2021
In the current investigation, we reviewed the literature on mand training for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in schools. Ninety-three studies met our inclusion criteria including 225 individual participants. Data were extracted related to participant demographics (e.g., age, disability, response form) and study…
Descriptors: Verbal Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement, Behavior Modification, Students with Disabilities
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Lambert, Joseph M.; Clohisy, Anne M.; Blair Barrows, S.; Houchins-Juarez, Nealetta J. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2017
Researchers have demonstrated for practitioners how to use multiple-schedules preparations to thin initially dense schedules of reinforcement during functional communication training, without sacrificing benefits associated with dense schedules of reinforcement for manding. However, special considerations may be required for practitioners to…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Communication Skills, Compliance (Psychology), Verbal Operant Conditioning
Maurilus, Emmy N. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The objective of Experiment I was to determine whether establishing conditioned reinforcement for engaging in math for pre-kindergarten students was possible using the three conditioning procedures outlined in previous research for conditioning book stimuli. The purpose of Experiment II was to determine whether this change in preference for…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Reinforcement, Mathematics Instruction
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Moore, James W.; Russo, Kayla; Gilfeather, Angelina; Whipple, Heather M.; Stanford, Greg – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2018
Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often emit errors during the establishment of conditional discriminations. These children may not respond to more traditional error-correction procedures, such as least-to-most prompting. In this study, we compared two other types of error-correction procedures, namely embedding an identity-matching…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Hodges, Ansley C.; Betz, Alison M.; Wilder, David A.; Antia, Kristen – Education and Treatment of Children, 2019
We used a contingent acoustical feedback procedure to increase appropriate walking and decrease toe walking exhibited by a young boy with autism. After a pre-treatment screening assessment suggested that toe walking was maintained by automatic reinforcement, we paired an auditory stimulus (i.e., a clicking sound) with access to a preferred item to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Auditory Stimuli, Behavior Modification, Psychomotor Skills
Gentilini, Lara M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Reading interest is a significant predictor of reading achievement, with effects on both reading comprehension and vocabulary. We measured students' interest in reading as an estimate of duration of observable reading using whole intervals of silent-reading time. In Experiment 1, we assessed associations among interest in reading (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Reinforcement, Elementary School Students, Reading Achievement
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