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Mands for information generalize across establishing operations.

Sarah A Lechago1, James E Carr, Laura L Grow

  • 1Western Michigan University, USA.

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
|March 2, 2011
PubMed
Summary

This study shows that children with autism can generalize requesting skills across different situations. Teaching requesting for information helps children with autism learn to ask for what they need in new contexts.

Keywords:
behavior chainsestablishing operationsmands

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Area of Science:

  • Behavior analysis
  • Developmental psychology
  • Autism spectrum disorder research

Background:

  • Teaching mands for information is crucial for communication development in children with autism spectrum disorder.
  • Generalization of learned behaviors across different contexts is a key challenge in autism intervention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if mands for information generalize across different establishing operations (EOs) in children with autism.
  • To extend the understanding of how to teach effective communication skills that are broadly applicable.

Main Methods:

  • Three children with autism participated in the study.
  • A multiple behavior chain procedure was used, with a common response for different purposes.
  • An interrupted-behavior-chain procedure was employed to create specific EOs for mand training.

Main Results:

  • All participants demonstrated generalization of mands for information across different EOs after training.
  • Two participants exhibited the emergence of a new mand-for-information topography post-training.

Conclusions:

  • Mands for information can generalize across varying establishing operations in children with autism.
  • Intervention strategies focusing on mand generalization may enhance functional communication skills in this population.