Priya Patil, Tina M Sidener, Heather Pane, Sharon A Reeve, Anjalee Nirgudkar
{"title":"Teaching Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder to Mand \"Why?\"","authors":"Priya Patil, Tina M Sidener, Heather Pane, Sharon A Reeve, Anjalee Nirgudkar","doi":"10.1007/s40616-020-00138-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-020-00138-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For most children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), manding for information is an important skill that must be systematically taught. Although previous studies have evaluated interventions for teaching other mands for information, to date no studies have demonstrated effective procedures for teaching the mand \"why?\" The purpose of the present study was to teach 3 children with ASD to mand \"why?\" under relevant establishing operation conditions in 3 distinct scenarios. A trial-unique multiple-exemplar procedure was used to promote generalization and increase the value of information provided across trials. All 3 participants learned to mand \"why?\" in all 3 scenarios within a mean of 18 sessions (range 14-21 sessions), demonstrated generalization to novel stimuli and settings, and maintained this skill over time. Social validity for the intervention had an overall mean of 5.88 (range 1-7).</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"37 1","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-020-00138-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39313868","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}
Eileen Pfeiffer Flores, Jorge Mendes de Oliveira-Castro, Carlos Barbosa Alves de Souza
{"title":"How to Do Things With Texts: A Functional Account of Reading Comprehension.","authors":"Eileen Pfeiffer Flores, Jorge Mendes de Oliveira-Castro, Carlos Barbosa Alves de Souza","doi":"10.1007/s40616-020-00135-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-020-00135-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We offer an account of reading comprehension that we believe will help clarify some common conceptual confusions in the relevant literature, as well as contribute to existing functional accounts. We argue that defining texts qua texts as stimulus classes, on the one hand, and equating \"comprehension\" with behavior (covert or otherwise), on the other, are not useful conceptual moves, especially when behavioral settings go beyond basic literacy skills acquisition. We then analyze the structure of the contingencies that usually evoke talk of \"comprehension\" using techniques from analytic philosophy. We show how keeping the results of this analysis in mind can help avoid the conceptual bafflement that often arises, even among behavior analysts, when defining or assessing behavioral phenomena related to reading comprehension. Using two contrasting cases (legal texts and stories), we argue that what counts as comprehension depends, not peripherally but crucially, on the shared social practices of which texts are a part. Finally, we propose a new framework for classifying reader-text contingencies by combining two dimensions: openness of setting and embeddedness of reinforcement.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 2","pages":"273-294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7736393/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39098272","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}
Anna Ingeborg Petursdottir, Stephanie M Neaves, Orlexia N Thomas
{"title":"Emergent Tact Control Following Stimulus Pairing: Comparison of Procedural Variations.","authors":"Anna Ingeborg Petursdottir, Stephanie M Neaves, Orlexia N Thomas","doi":"10.1007/s40616-020-00132-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-020-00132-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We examined emergent tact control following stimulus pairing, using 2 different stimulus presentation arrangements. In the word-first condition, presentation of the auditory stimulus preceded the visual stimulus, and in the image-first condition, the visual stimulus preceded the auditory stimulus. Eight children (2-5 years old) participated. In Experiment 1, 4 children were exposed to 3 sessions in each condition with a new set of stimuli in each session. In Experiment 2, 2 of the same children received repeated exposure to the same stimulus sets. Experiment 3, with new participants, was identical to Experiment 1, except visual and auditory stimuli overlapped during the presentation. Postsession probes documented emergent stimulus control over 1 or more vocal responses for 7 of the 8 participants. Participants were more likely to make echoic responses with the visual stimulus present in the word-first condition; however, emergent tact control was unaffected by the order of the stimulus presentation. Additional research is needed on stimulus-pairing procedures and on the role of echoic responding in emergent tact control.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 2","pages":"193-214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-020-00132-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38767740","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}
Jordan Belisle, Kate Huggins, Meghan Doherty, Caleb R Stanley, Mark R Dixon
{"title":"Generalized Reflexive Responding and Cross-Modal Tactile Transfer of Stimulus Function in Children with Autism.","authors":"Jordan Belisle, Kate Huggins, Meghan Doherty, Caleb R Stanley, Mark R Dixon","doi":"10.1007/s40616-020-00137-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-020-00137-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We sought to evaluate the efficacy of successive matching training for establishing generalized reflexive matching across 4 children with autism. In Experiment 1, differential reinforcement with delay fading was efficacious in establishing \"yes\" and \"no\" matching and nonmatching responses in 2 participants when 2 identical or nonidentical picture stimuli were presented. In addition, emergent visual-visual reflexive relational responses were observed using novel picture stimuli in a transfer test phase. In Experiment 2, differential reinforcement alone was efficacious in establishing matching and nonmatching responses in the other 2 participants when 2 identical or nonidentical objects were presented. Transfer to identical objects presented through touch (i.e., tactile discrimination) was additionally observed for both participants. Procedures in the study were adapted from the PEAK Relational Training System to aid in clinical replication, and the translational results have implications for language training with individuals with autism.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 2","pages":"233-250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7736375/pdf/40616_2020_Article_137.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38767742","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":"Emergent Listener Fluency: A Replication.","authors":"Ji Young Kim, Madeline R Frank, Daniel M Fienup","doi":"10.1007/s40616-020-00139-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-020-00139-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fluent listener behavior is a fundamental repertoire that affects the learning and development of speaker repertoires. We used a concurrent multiple-baseline design across 3 preschool-aged participants with disabilities to evaluate the effectiveness of a listener emersion protocol on increasing listener fluency. Prior to intervention, the participants demonstrated difficulty following vocal directions. The dependent variables were the rate per minute of correct and incorrect listener responses to vocal directions. The listener emersion protocol required participants to follow 4 sets of 5 one-step vocal directions. Results of this study indicate that listener fluency improved with an increased rate of correct responses across all 3 participants as a function of the listener emersion protocol.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 2","pages":"318-326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-020-00139-w","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38768114","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}
Katie M Wiskow, Jasmine Torrecillas, Haide Rocha, Allison DaSilva
{"title":"Evaluation of Lag Schedules and Rules on Persistent Response Variability With Preschoolers in a Group.","authors":"Katie M Wiskow, Jasmine Torrecillas, Haide Rocha, Allison DaSilva","doi":"10.1007/s40616-020-00136-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-020-00136-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the present study, experimenters evaluated the influence of lag schedules of reinforcement in combination with accurate and inaccurate (complete and incomplete) rules on the response variability of naming category items for typically developing preschoolers in a group format. Results showed that when lag schedules were introduced with 2 categories, response variability generalized to the third category. Furthermore, after participants experienced the lag schedule, variability persisted when the contingency no longer required variability. Participants continued to vary their responses unless the rule and contingency required them to repeat responses. We discuss potential clinical applications of using lag schedules in a group format and including rules during teaching, as well as directions for future research in this area.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 2","pages":"251-272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7736426/pdf/40616_2020_Article_136.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38767743","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}
Kate B LaLonde, Ana D Dueñas, Nicole Neil, Addam Wawrzonek, Joshua B Plavnick
{"title":"An Evaluation of Two Tact-Training Procedures on Acquired Tacts and Tacting During Play.","authors":"Kate B LaLonde, Ana D Dueñas, Nicole Neil, Addam Wawrzonek, Joshua B Plavnick","doi":"10.1007/s40616-020-00131-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-020-00131-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A common practice in tact training is to include a supplemental verbal stimulus (e.g., \"What is it?\") in addition to the presentation of a nonverbal discriminative stimulus. Previous literature has suggested that this supplemental verbal stimulus can impede acquisition and generalization relative to the presentation of the object alone, as it may establish faulty stimulus control or decrease spontaneous tacting. Research has yet to compare these 2 training methods on the generalization of learned tacts to more naturalistic, play-based environments. The present study evaluated the use of \"What is it?\" compared to the presentation of only the nonverbal discriminative stimulus on tact acquisition among 3 children with autism spectrum disorder and the extent to which these training procedures led to tacting in a play-based setting following discrete-trial training. Overall, participants learned to tact stimuli under both conditions, and all participants demonstrated generalization of tacts in a play-based setting. Recommendations for the development and evaluation of naturalistic posttraining assessment are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 2","pages":"180-192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-020-00131-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38767739","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}
João H de Almeida, Mariéle Diniz Cortez, Julio C de Rose
{"title":"The Effects of Monitoring on Children's Rule-Following in a Computerized Procedure.","authors":"João H de Almeida, Mariéle Diniz Cortez, Julio C de Rose","doi":"10.1007/s40616-020-00130-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-020-00130-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 2","pages":"295-307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-020-00130-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38767744","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}
Larissa Bezerra de Melo Wider, Romariz da Silva Barros, André A B Varella
{"title":"Equivalence Class Formation in Individuals With Autism: Predictions From ABLA-R Levels.","authors":"Larissa Bezerra de Melo Wider, Romariz da Silva Barros, André A B Varella","doi":"10.1007/s40616-020-00134-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-020-00134-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children who are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often fail to show equivalence class formation. This may be related to their difficulty in learning the programmed baseline conditional discriminations. The present study investigated equivalence class formation after training visual identity-matching performance with auditory class-specific consequences in 6 individuals who were diagnosed with ASD and who achieved different levels (Levels 4, 5, and 6) on the Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities-Revised (ABLA-R). The potentially emergent relations were all arbitrary (relations between completely dissimilar stimuli): visual-visual (AB and BA) and auditory-visual (SA and SB). None of the participants who achieved ABLA-R Level 4 or 5 responded in accord with equivalence class formation. They did not present any emergent arbitrary conditional relations (either visual-visual relations or auditory-visual relations). Only participants who achieved ABLA-R Level 6 demonstrated equivalence class formation. These findings are consistent with the predictive ability of the ABLA-R with regard to the acquisition of discriminations and to the emergence of the same type of conditional relations and the same hierarchy of complexity.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 2","pages":"215-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7736424/pdf/40616_2020_Article_134.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38767741","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":"Using a Lag Schedule of Reinforcement to Increase Response Variability in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders.","authors":"Jenifer Olin, Alyse Sonsky, Monica Howard","doi":"10.1007/s40616-020-00129-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-020-00129-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lag reinforcement schedules have been shown in previous research to be an effective intervention for teaching verbal and nonverbal response variability to individuals with developmental disabilities. In more recent research, variability itself has been considered a reinforceable behavior in its own right (Susa & Schlinger, The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 18, 125-130, 2012). Lag <i>x</i> schedules of reinforcement can be used to teach variability by using contingencies that require responses to differ from previous responses. The present study extended Susa and Schlinger's, The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 18, 125-130, (2012) research by using 3 social questions instead of 1 in a random rotation and included probes to test for generality. A changing-criterion design was used to evaluate the results with one 11-year-old female participant diagnosed with autism. During baseline, the participant provided little variability, with rote responses. During the Lag 1 and Lag 2 phases, appropriate variable verbal responding increased with the use of echoic prompts, visual aids, and an error correction procedure. Further, the results also showed that the participant learned to vary her responses by demonstrating the ability to emit 11 novel prompted responses and 13 spontaneous responses. In addition, the participant was able to retain the skills learned in a maintenance probe conducted 4 weeks postintervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 2","pages":"169-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-020-00129-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38767738","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}