{"title":"Functional Analysis and Treatment of Repetitive Verbal Behavior in Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.","authors":"Aarti H Thakore, Tracy L Kettering","doi":"10.1007/s40616-024-00208-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-024-00208-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Repetitive verbal behavior presents a unique challenge to researchers and clinicians as the topography of the behavior often appears to be a mand for information or tangibles; however, the repetitive nature of the behavior indicates otherwise. The purpose of the current study was to (a) extend the application of functional analysis (FA) methodology to identify the functionally related variables of the repetitive verbal behavior (requests for information and/or requests for tangibles) of three children with autism spectrum disorder and (b) verify results of the FA during a function-based intervention evaluation. Results of the FA showed that the repetitive verbal behavior of the three participants was maintained by access to adult attention instead of access to information or tangibles. Using this information, we taught the participants to mand for attention during functional communication training. Results of the functional communication training demonstrated a reduction in the repetitive verbal behavior and an increase in mands for attention.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40616-024-00208-4.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"41 1","pages":"68-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12283496/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144709798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephanie Keesey-Phelan, Judah B Axe, Philip N Chase
{"title":"The Effects of Reinforcing Tacting on the Recall of Children with Autism.","authors":"Stephanie Keesey-Phelan, Judah B Axe, Philip N Chase","doi":"10.1007/s40616-024-00207-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-024-00207-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Attending to and tacting stimuli in a situation may facilitate recall of that situation. To evaluate this, we showed varied slide decks of 25 black-and-white stick figures engaged in actions to four adolescents and one child with autism. Ten minutes later, we asked them to name the pictures they remembered. Using a multielement design, we compared three conditions in the picture viewing context wherein we (a) instructed the participant to view the pictures quietly, (b) prompted and reinforced tacts of the pictures, or (c) required the participant to repeat a series of letters and numbers (i.e., a blocking procedure). For four of the participants, recall was highest in the condition in which we prompted and reinforced tacts of the pictures. These data provide preliminary support for the hypothesis that prompting and reinforcing tacting stimuli enhances recall with respect to those stimuli, though several limitations and directions for future research are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"41 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12283510/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144709800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward a Procedure to Study Rule-Governed Choice: Preliminary Data.","authors":"David Ruiz Méndez","doi":"10.1007/s40616-024-00206-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-024-00206-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this study was to model a situation that induced choice between following two incompatible rules, each associated with a different rate of reinforcement. In Experiment 1, eight undergraduate students were exposed to a two-component multiple schedule (training). In each component, there was a concurrent variable interval (VI)-extinction (EXT) schedule. Participants were given two rules that instructed them to respond to the VI alternative in the presence of different discriminative stimuli. The side of the VI schedule changed in each component and offered a different reinforcer rate according to the discriminative stimuli in the operation. When both discriminative stimuli were concurrently presented (test), participants favored the alternative previously instructed by the rule, which was associated with the greatest reinforcer rate, whereas indifference was observed in the absence of discriminative stimuli. Experiment 2 tested the effects of reinforcement rate using the same procedure without providing rules. During training, participants gradually developed a preference for the VI alternatives. In the choice test phase, participants favored the alternative associated with the stimuli with the highest reinforcer rate when both discriminative stimuli were present. Unsystematic preference was observed in the absence of discriminative stimuli. Two alternative explanations were provided for the findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"40 2","pages":"280-305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11925829/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143694392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Use of Multiple Exemplar Instruction to Induce Emergent Listener Discriminations and Emergent Intraverbal Vocal Responses in Autistic Children.","authors":"Kate Hewett, Emma Hawkins","doi":"10.1007/s40616-023-00199-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-023-00199-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study tested for the emergence of listener discriminations and intraverbal vocal responses following tact training with four autistic children. All participants were trained to tact the name and the favorite food of two contrived cartoon monsters in the presence of a picture of the monster (e.g., \"What is the name of this monster?\" - \"Max\" and \"What food does the monster eat?\" - \"Sweets\") to evaluate the effects of emergent listener discriminations and emergent intraverbal vocal responses. Once criterion was met on the tact training, participants were tested for emergent listener discriminations (e.g., \"Who eats sweets?\" And \"Who is Max?\") and emergent intraverbal vocal responses (e.g., \"What food does Max eat?\" - \"Sweets\" and \"Who eats sweets?\" - \"Max\" in the absence of the picture). After training, all four participants engaged in emergent listener responding but only one participant engaged in emergent intraverbal responding. Multiple exemplar instruction (MEI) was used to teach those who could not engage in emergent intraverbal responding, and it was demonstrated to be effective. These findings are educationally significant because efficiency of instruction is important to maximize instructional impact, and to reduce the time and resource-intensive nature of behavior-analytic programming.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"40 1","pages":"63-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11217261/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141499631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ciobha A McKeown, Carley E Smith, Timothy R Vollmer, Lindsay A Lloveras, Kerri P Peters
{"title":"Teaching an Infant to Request Help.","authors":"Ciobha A McKeown, Carley E Smith, Timothy R Vollmer, Lindsay A Lloveras, Kerri P Peters","doi":"10.1007/s40616-023-00198-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-023-00198-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Teaching an infant manual signs is beneficial as it promotes early communication, improves socialization, and can functionally replace behaviors such as crying and whining. Improving early communication also may reduce the probability of an infant engaging in dangerous behavior, like unsafe climbing. The purpose of this study was to extend Thompson et al. (Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 40:15-23, 2007) by teaching an 8-month-old infant, who was noted to display developmental delays, to sign for \"help\" when preferred items were inaccessible. Similar to Thompson et al., delayed prompting and differential reinforcement was efficacious in teaching the infant to sign for \"help,\" and the skill generalized to situations that were previously associated with unsafe climbing. However, undesirable generalization of signs for \"help\" when the infant could independently access the items was observed. Additional teaching was necessary to ensure signing for \"help\" occurred under appropriate antecedent control.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40616-023-00198-9.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"40 1","pages":"53-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11217221/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141499590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth J Preas, Mary E Halbur, Regina A Carroll
{"title":"Procedural Fidelity Reporting in <i>The Analysis of Verbal Behavior</i> from 2007-2021.","authors":"Elizabeth J Preas, Mary E Halbur, Regina A Carroll","doi":"10.1007/s40616-023-00197-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-023-00197-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Procedural fidelity refers to the degree to which procedures for an assessment or intervention (i.e., independent variables) are implemented consistent with the prescribed protocols. Procedural fidelity is an important factor in demonstrating the internal validity of an experiment and clinical treatments. Previous reviews evaluating the inclusion of procedural fidelity in published empirical articles demonstrated underreporting of procedural fidelity procedures and measures within specific journals. We conducted a systematic review of <i>The Analysis of Verbal Behavior</i> (<i>TAVB</i>) to evaluate the trends in procedural fidelity reporting from 2007 to 2021. Of the 253 articles published in <i>TAVB</i> during the reporting period, 144 of the articles (168 studies) met inclusionary criteria for further analysis. Our results showed that 54% of studies reported procedural fidelity data, which is slightly higher than previous reviews. In comparison, interobserver-agreement data were reported for a high percentage of studies reviewed (i.e., 93%). Further discussion of results and applied research implications are included.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"40 1","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11217236/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141499589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing the Verbal Behavior of a Linguistically Diverse Speaker with Autism.","authors":"Sreeja Atherkode, Lee Mason","doi":"10.1007/s40616-023-00196-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-023-00196-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"40 2","pages":"271-279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11926281/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143694357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ashley R. Gibbs, Christopher A. Tullis, Jocelyn Priester, Crysta P. Reddock
{"title":"Teaching Problem Explanations Using Instructive Feedback: A Replication and Extension","authors":"Ashley R. Gibbs, Christopher A. Tullis, Jocelyn Priester, Crysta P. Reddock","doi":"10.1007/s40616-023-00195-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-023-00195-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"14 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135043851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juliana S. C. D. Oliveira, Reagan Elaine Cox, Anna Ingeborg Petursdottir
{"title":"Summation in Convergent Multiple Control Over Selection-Based Verbal Behavior","authors":"Juliana S. C. D. Oliveira, Reagan Elaine Cox, Anna Ingeborg Petursdottir","doi":"10.1007/s40616-023-00194-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-023-00194-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136130799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adrienne O’Neil, Sara K. Sato, Caio F. Miguel, Megan R. Heinicke, Jason C. Vladescu
{"title":"A Treatment Evaluation of Successive and Simultaneous Visual Stimulus Presentation During Tact Training with Children with Autism","authors":"Adrienne O’Neil, Sara K. Sato, Caio F. Miguel, Megan R. Heinicke, Jason C. Vladescu","doi":"10.1007/s40616-023-00192-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-023-00192-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136130121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}