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Book explains what verbal behavior is and how to teach the child or adult to convey what they want to say. Four verbal operants are used in this teaching technology: mand (request), tact (name, label, and comment), echoic (imitate), and intraverbal (answer). Manual includes information on basic principles, concepts, and information of verbal behavior; stimuli/triggers (reinforcement) and reinforcers (rewards); human relationships and their role in teaching verbal behavior; teaching mands and five common elements of mand training; generalized imitations; ways to teach basic and more elaborate speech to children with autism; receptive language as discrimination training and using conditional discrimination training; four main things about intraverbal; and critical issues related to verbal behavior. From the Pro-ed Series on Autism Spectrum Disorders. | |