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Clare J. Liddon; Whitney Trapp – Education and Treatment of Children, 2025
The current case study sought to evaluate if reinstatement, the recurrence of previously extinguished behavior following delivery of reinforcers (Reid, "British Journal of Psychology", 49, 202-209, 1958), would be observed in manding, an appropriate communication response, and to evaluate if reinstatement would be observed across…
Descriptors: Verbal Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement, Recidivism, Behavior Modification
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Xiaohan Chen; Ann X. Huang – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2025
Children with autism spectrum disorder often exhibit difficulties in social communication and interaction. Those who do not acquire functional communication to effectively express wants and needs often are at a higher risk of displaying challenging behaviors. Mand training is recognized as an evidence-based intervention for teaching communication…
Descriptors: Verbal Operant Conditioning, Behavior Modification, Communication Skills, Children
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Cynthia P. Livingston; Jessica P. Tran; Brinea M. Charles; Sara R. Jeglum; Mathew C. Luehring; Patricia F. Kurtz – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2025
Functional communication training is a widely used function-based intervention to replace inappropriate and severe challenging behavior (Tiger et al., 2008). When considering which FCR topography to include in functional communication training, clinicians may consider several factors such as response effort, social significance, and preference.…
Descriptors: Verbal Operant Conditioning, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Child Behavior
Emily K. Unholz-Bowden – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Interventions related to differential reinforcement (DR) are among the most frequently used within the field of applied behavior analysis (ABA). However, certain conditions can inhibit the level at which effects of these interventions maintain upon treatment challenges or generalize across contexts. This can result in the relapse, or recurrence of…
Descriptors: Applied Behavior Analysis, Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement, Intervention
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Jenny Ferguson; Katerina Dounavi; Emma A. Craig – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2023
There is a growing body of evidence supporting the use of telehealth to provide parent training in behaviour analytic interventions and researchers have begun to focus on international demonstrations of this model. The current study assessed the efficacy of a training package focused on naturalistic teaching strategies designed to upskill parents…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Health Services, Coaching (Performance), Autism Spectrum Disorders
Aparna Naresh – ProQuest LLC, 2022
For children with developmental or language delays, mand interventions have been identified as an integral part of educational programming (e.g., Greer & Ross, 2008; Shafer, 1994; Sundberg & Michael, 2001). Mands, which are the most elementary forms of verbal behavior, allow individuals to begin to contact social contractual contingencies;…
Descriptors: Intervention, Developmental Delays, Language Impairments, Verbal Communication