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Delgado, Jo Ann Pereira; Oblak, Mara – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2007
We tested the effects of an intensive tact instruction procedure on the emission of verbal operants in non-instructional settings by three preschool students with developmental delays. The participants were selected because they emitted low numbers pure verbal operants in non-instructional settings throughout the school day. Specifically, we…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Developmental Delays, Verbal Development, Instructional Effectiveness
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Speckman-Collins, JeanneMarie; Park, Hye-Suk Lee; Greer, Douglas – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2007
We tested the effects of teaching an auditory match to sample repertoire on the emergence of the listener half of the verbal developmental cusp of Naming for 2-preschool students with language-based disabilities. The study was conducted in a special education CABAS[R] preschool. Neither of the students had selection or discrimination responses,…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Dyslexia, Language Impairments, Verbal Development
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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
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Keohane, Dolleen-Day; Luke, Nicole; Greer, R. Douglas – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2008
We tested the effect of a Rotated Protocol Immersion package on the emergence of observing responses as prerequisites for more complex verbal developmental capabilities. Three elementary aged students between the ages of 6 and 7 participated. They were diagnosed with autism spectrum disabilities. The treatment condition consisted of total…
Descriptors: Child Development, Verbal Development, Autism, Attention
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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
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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