Videos

The initial steps for teaching mands are presented. This segment introduces mand teaching procedures for students who will make requests through vocalizations (speaking).

Transfer trials are teaching trials for mands that deliberately fade prompts. Two types of prompt fading transfer trials are described: within trial transfer trials and second trial transfers.

This segment includes examples of the different types of mand necessary for effective communication. The relation between motivation and requesting for all mands is stressed.

This session will thoroughly cover multiple control and its role in teaching children with autism, with extensions to literature, humor, recall, problem solving, and derived relations.

This session will thoroughly cover multiple control and its role in teaching children with autism, with extensions to literature, humor, recall, problem solving, and derived relations.

This session will discuss language assessment needs, including critical information about before-and-after contexts of test responses, in order to best inform treatment decisions.

Research on disorders of learning and behavior typically has emphasized acquisition of adaptive behavior or elimination of problem behavior. For many years, the treatment of problem behavior has incorporated a number of acquisition techniques to establish socially appropriate replacement responses. A proactive strategy — strengthening appropriate behavior for the explicit purpose of preventing problem behavior — is the subject of this presentation. Topics to be covered include identifying risk factors, reducing general risk factors (establishing operations or EOs) for problem behavior, and establishing socially appropriate responses that are adaptive in the presence of EOs.

Outlines the basic steps in using errorless teaching techniques to teach a student to tact actions. This segment also provides a description of error correction procedures used during tact of action instruction.

Provides an overview of the skills a student should have prior to initiating teaching tacts of actions and provides models of techniques that will allow assessment of a student’s existing repertoire of skills related to tacts of actions.

Provides suggestions for extending basic tacts of actions in combination with a student’s ability to tact objects to use of two component tacts. The segment suggests ways to encourage novel recombination of verb-noun tacts so that learners acquire generative skills.