Sundberg and Michael (2011) reviewed the contributions of Skinner's (1957) Verbal
Behavior to the treatment of language delays in children with autism spectrum disorder …

Four recent experiments demonstrated roughly parametric effects of acquisition‐
performance criteria, or mastery criteria, on response maintenance outcomes: higher criteria …

Assessment-based instruction can increase the efficacy and efficiency of skill acquisition by
using learner data to select an intervention procedure from a comparison of potential …

Researchers have identified protocols to induce verbal behavior cusps and capabilities that
put an individual's repertoires in contact with new contingencies and allows the individual to …

Teaching complex intraverbal responding to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
can be challenging and often requires careful programming. Divergent and convergent …

Abstract The impact of Verbal Behavior (Skinner, 1957) on behavior analytic research,
although not immediate, has steadily increased. Empirical investigations of verbal operants …

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and hyperlexia (HPL) have both advanced
word reading skills and a reading comprehension disorder, alongside impaired oral …

Previous studies on skill acquisition have taught targets in stimulus sets composed of
different numbers of stimuli. Although the rationale for selection of a stimulus set size is not …

Children with autism spectrum disorder are typically taught conditional discriminations using
a match‐to‐sample arrangement. Consideration should be given to the temporal order in …

Childhood language delays and language impairments negatively impact educational
outcomes and quality of life. In spite of previously prevailing views to the contrary, evidence …