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Pelaez, Martha; Virues-Ortega, Javier; Gewirtz, Jacob L. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011
Maternal vocal imitation of infant vocalizations is highly prevalent during face-to-face interactions of infants and their caregivers. Although maternal vocal imitation has been associated with later verbal development, its potentially reinforcing effect on infant vocalizations has not been explored experimentally. This study examined the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Imitation, Caregivers, Infants
Esch, Barbara E.; Carr, James E.; Grow, Laura L. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2009
Evidence to support stimulus-stimulus pairing (SSP) in speech acquisition is less than robust, calling into question the ability of SSP to reliably establish automatically reinforcing properties of speech and limiting the procedure's clinical utility for increasing vocalizations. We evaluated the effects of a modified SSP procedure on…
Descriptors: Autism, Reinforcement, Preschool Children, Speech Communication