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The Effects of Daily Intensive Tact Instruction on Preschool Students' Emission of Pure Tacts and Mands in Non-Instructional Setting
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Pistoljevic, Nirvana; Greer, R. Douglas – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2006
We tested the effects of an intensive tact instruction procedure on numbers of tacts emitted in non-instructional settings (NIS) using a multiple probe design across 3 participants (3- and 4-year old boys with autism). The dependent variable was tacts emitted in NIS before/after the mastery of sets of 5 different stimuli. The non-instructional…
Descriptors: Autism, Preschool Children, Males, Reinforcement
Language Training for the Non-Verbal or Language Delayed Child.
Cole, Martha – 1979
Language training for the non-verbal or language delayed child should utilize feedback to reinforce correct responses and should closely follow the syntactical development of normal children. The two basic areas of language training are receptive and expressive. Receptive language training includes attending and responding, following single phase…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Expressive Language, Feedback, Language Handicaps
Effects of Speaker Immersion on Independent Speaker Behavior of Preschool Children with Verbal Delays
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Ross, Denise E.; Nuzzolo, Robin; Stolfi, Lauren; Natarelli, Sarah – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2006
Speaker immersion is a tactic that uses multiple establishing operations to increase speaker behavior for individuals with limited mand and tact repertoires. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the effects of speaker immersion on the number of independent mands, tacts, and autoclitics emitted by young children with verbal delays. In the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Verbal Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement, Developmental Delays
The Effects of Intensive Tact Instruction on Audience-Accurate Tacts and Conversational Units
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Schauffler, Geneva; Greer, R. Douglas – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2006
We examined the effects of intensive tact instruction on emission of audience-accurate verbalizations of 2 middle school students using a delayed multiple baseline design across participants. Dependent variables were accurate and inaccurate audience controlled tacts and conversational units during non-instructional times. Following baselines,…
Descriptors: Verbal Development, Teaching Methods, Reinforcement, Middle School Students
Verbal Operant Conditioning of Young Mongoloid Children. Final Report.
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MacCubrey, Mary Katharine – 1968
Operant conditioning techniques were used to modify verbal behavior in 18 institutionalized, trainable mentally handicapped mongoloids with chronological ages from 4-6 to 7-10 and mental ages from 2.0 to 2.10. Two instruments were constructed to evaluate language: a language test and a speech rating scale. Project leaders had no prior knowledge of…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Change, Case Records, Down Syndrome
OPERANT PROCEDURES IN REMEDIAL SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TRAINING.
MACAULAY, BARBARA D., ED.; SLOANE, HOWARD N., JR., ED. – 1968
INTENDED FOR SPEECH THERAPISTS, THEACHERS OF THE MENTALLY RETARDED, AND OTHERS IN SPECIAL EDUCATION, THE COLLECTION CONTAINS REPORTS BY VARIOUS AUTHORS ON SPEECH AND LANGUAGE MODIFICATION ATTEMPTS THAT HAVE UTILIZED OPERANT CONDITIONING PROCEDURES, AS WELL AS SEVERAL PAPERS ON BACKGROUND TOPICS. BACKGROUND PAPERS ON TEACHING TREAT ENVIRONMENTAL…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Articulation (Speech), Autism, Behavior Change