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ERIC Number: EJ1463502
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Dec
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0889-9401
EISSN: EISSN-2196-8926
Available Date: 2023-11-20
Assessing the Verbal Behavior of a Linguistically Diverse Speaker with Autism
Analysis of Verbal Behavior, v40 n2 p271-279 2024
For speakers belonging to multiple verbal communities, functional analyses of verbal behavior allow for dynamic control over response topography. The simple practice of allowing the speaker the freedom to select the language of instruction minimizes cultural bias and hegemony. We extended the research on functional analyses of verbal behavior to include a speaker of multiple languages in a quasi-experimental case study. We employed verbal operant experimental (VOX) analyses as a repeated measure of language acquisition with a linguistically diverse, 7-year-old Indian boy with autism. The VOX analyses were conducted as part of the child's early intensive behavioral intervention, and we observed the impact of an immersive foreign language experience on his verbal repertoire with follow-up VOX analyses conducted in three topographically distinct languages: English, Telugu, and Tamil. The results show a dynamic hierarchy of strength between the three languages, with overarching patterns across the three assessments. The implications for using VOX analyses to assess the functional language skills of multilingual speakers with autism are discussed, and areas of future research are highlighted.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: India
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Author Affiliations: 1University of North Texas, Department of Teacher Education and Administration, Denton, USA; 2Cook Children’s Health Care System, Child Study Center, Fort Worth, USA; 3Texas Christian University, Burnett School of Medicine, Fort Worth, USA