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Carroll, Regina A.; Klatt, Kevin P. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2008
In this study the effect of a stimulus-stimulus pairing procedure was used as part of a clinical investigation to increase vocalizations for two young children diagnosed with autism. This procedure involved pairing a vocal sound with a preferred stimulus (e.g., toy) to condition automatic reinforcement. In addition, this study assessed the effects…
Descriptors: Verbal Stimuli, Autism, Behavior Modification, Young Children
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LaFrance, Danielle; Wilder, David A.; Normand, Matthew P.; Squires, James L. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2009
The current study examined the effectiveness of an experimental functional analysis for assessing the functions of emergent vocal-verbal behavior in children with developmental disabilities. Experiment 1 consisted of a systematic replication of Lerman et al. (2005). Participants were 3 children with developmental disabilities, between the ages of…
Descriptors: Research Design, Verbal Stimuli, Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities
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Stock, Richard A.; Schulze, Kimberly A.; Mirenda, Pat – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2008
An alternating treatments design was employed to compare the effect of stimulus-stimulus pairing, standard echoic training, and a control condition on the vocal behavior of 3 preschoolers with autism. Data were recorded during pre- and postsession observations. During the stimulus-stimulus pairing condition, the experimenter's vocal model was…
Descriptors: Autism, Outcomes of Treatment, Comparative Analysis, Behavior
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Miguel, C. F.; Petursdottir, A. I.; Carr, J. E. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2005
The purpose of this study was to determine whether multiple-tact training and receptive-discrimination training could be used to teach thematically related vocal intraverbals to typically developing preschool children. Multiple-tact training involved teaching a child to name both the item and the category to which the item belonged.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Visual Stimuli, Verbal Communication, Classification