ArticleBehavior analysis in practice2020
Evaluation of a Treatment Package to Increase Mean Length of Utterances for Children with Autism.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Relationship Between the Use of Speech-Generating Devices and Verbal Requests in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disabilities.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Establishing Functional Communication Responses and Mands: A Scoping Review of Teaching Procedures and Implications for Future Investigation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Using Speech-Generating Devices to Improve Manding With One Icon in Children With Autism: A Systematic Review.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- A Clinical Tutorial on Methods to Capture and Contrive Establishing Operations to Teach Mands.Behavior analysis in practice · 2024Article
- A Tutorial on Indicating Responses and Their Importance in Mand Training.Behavior analysis in practice · 2024Article
- A Review of the Environmental Variables Included in Mand Training Interventions.The Analysis of verbal behavior · 2024Review
- Using Transfer Trials to Teach Tacting to Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder.Behavior analysis in practice · 2021Article
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Abstract
Skinner's (1957) classification of mand responses has spawned decades of research related to teaching individuals with developmental disabilities. However, few studies have evaluated how to teach individuals with autism to progress from simple to more complex mands for desired items and activities. The present study used a treatment package consisting of errorless teaching, differential reinforcement, and systematic decision rules to increase the number of words per mand utterance used by 6 children with autism. Daily probes were conducted in the absence of prompting and differential reinforcement throughout every stage of the treatment. Results showed that all children showed significant developmental gains in the mean length of utterances. Increased rates of manding, increased emission of mand frames, and decreased instances of indicating responses (i.e., pointing, reaching) in the absence of mands were also observed. Implications regarding the feasibility of intensive mand training in practice are discussed.
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