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Malott, Richard W. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2005
This article reviews the negative behavior-analytic commentary on Drash and Tudor's behavior-analytic analysis of the etiology of autistic repertoires and values. This article also asks that, in our effort to scrub it clean, we not drown Drash and Tudor's beautiful, but fragile, new-born, behavior-analytic baby in hyper-methodological,…
Descriptors: Autism, Etiology, Behavior Problems, Antisocial Behavior
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Drash, Philip W.; Tudor, Roger M. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2004
This paper presents a response to five commentaries on our article "An Analysis of Autism as a Contingency-Shaped Disorder of Verbal Behavior" (Drash & Tudor, 2004). One of the principal objectives of that article is to provide the behavior analysis community and the autism community with a conceptual basis for analyzing autism as a behavioral…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Prevention, Autism, Etiology
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Hixson, Michael D. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2004
Drash and Tudor's argument that autism is a contingency-shaped disorder of verbal behavior is logical and consistent with behavioral principles, but the argument's premises have no direct empirical support and some conflicting evidence. The quantity and quality of research needed to support such a theory is compared to that found in the area of…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Social Development, Antisocial Behavior, Autism