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The Analysis of Verbal Behavior
|April 6, 2012
Summary
This study teaches children with autism to ask "where?" and "who?" questions to request information. These skills were acquired by manipulating establishing operations (EOs) and generalized to new situations.
Area of Science:
- Behavior Analysis
- Developmental Psychology
- Special Education
Background:
- Children with autism often struggle with asking wh- questions to request information, despite strong receptive and expressive language skills.
- Wh- questions function as mands (requests) controlled by establishing operations (EOs) that establish specific reinforcement.
- Effective language instruction for children with autism requires addressing deficits in manding for information.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate a procedure for teaching the mand "where?" to children with autism.
- To teach the mand "who?" to children with autism following the acquisition of "where?"
- To assess the role of establishing operations (EOs) in teaching these mands.
Main Methods:
- Contrived an establishing operation (EO) for the location of a missing item to teach the mand "where?"
- Contrived an establishing operation (EO) for a specific person to teach the mand "who?"
- Manipulated EOs as independent variables to assess their effect on mand acquisition.
Main Results:
- Children with autism acquired the mands "where?" and "who?" when relevant EOs were manipulated.
- Acquisition of these mands was dependent on the manipulation of EOs.
- Participants demonstrated generalization of the learned mands to untrained items and settings.
Conclusions:
- Manipulating establishing operations (EOs) is an effective strategy for teaching children with autism to mand for information.
- This procedure has significant implications for developing language instruction methods for children with autism.
- The findings support the use of behavior-analytic principles to improve communication skills in children with autism.
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