Acquisition of verbal behavior is a major goal of interventions for children with developmental disabilities. We evaluated the effectiveness of manipulation of an establishing operation for functional discriminated mands. Four individuals with developmental disabilities participated in a training procedure designed to teach two separate mands for…

This response to Chandler et al. (EC 604 147) suggests that generalization of social competence training be viewed from both functional and topographical perspectives which have scientific and practice biases, respectively. The paper proposes a generalization-discrimination continuum along which behaviors may be placed for optimum utility. (DB)

This case study describes initially unsuccessful attempts to use the delayed-cue procedure to teach conditional discriminations to a 25-year-old male with moderate mental retardation. The subject typically waited for the delayed cue unless differential responses to the dictated samples (repeating the sample names) were required. (Author/DB)