Previous research suggests that language-training procedures for children with autism might be enhanced following an assessment of conditions that evoke emerging verbal behavior. The present investigation examined a methodology to teach recognizable mands based on environmental variables known to evoke participants' idiosyncratic communicative…

Three experiments involving college adults, retarded adults, and adolescents and normal preschoolers examined the efficacy of three methods of presenting stimuli (successive, simultaneous, or a combination) in object- naming tasks. Results were consistent in showing better posttest performance for Ss in the simultaneous and combined conditions.…

Evaluated was the effect of incidental teaching of language skills in free play situations with 11 low income 4- and 5-year-old Black children. (Author/CL)

A training program was conducted to improve the generalized mnemonic performance (memory) of a Down's Syndrome child (six years old). (Author)

The performance of five students (ages 6 to 10) in an adjustment class for deaf children was compared under fixed and variable ratio schedules of reinforcement. During the VR condition, students visually attended more and engaged in disruptive behavior less often than during the FR condition. (Author)