Teaching the Conditional Use of Communicative Requests to Two School-Age Children With Severe Developmental
Joe Reichle1, Susan S Johnston2
1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Purpose:
Two boys with severe developmental disabilities were taught to conditionally use requests to obtain desired snack items.
Method:
When items were in the possession of another person (teacher, peer) or proximally distant, learners were taught to emit communicative requests. When items were proximally near, learners engaged in a self-selecting response.
Results:
Results suggest that the conditional discriminations were established quickly. Both learners generalized their conditional discriminations to other contexts within the classroom.
Clinical Implications:
This study demonstrates the importance of attending to conditional discriminations when teaching communication requests.
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