Empirical application of Skinner's verbal behavior to interventions for children with autism: A review

AA DeSouza, JS Akers, WW Fisher - The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2017 - Springer
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 …

Generalization and maintenance of functional communication training for individuals with developmental disabilities: A systematic and quality review

L Neely, E Garcia, B Bankston, A Green - Research in Developmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Functional communication training (FCT) is considered an evidence-based
practice for treating problem behavior in individuals with developmental disabilities (eg …

Systematic review of problem behavior interventions: Outcomes, demographics, and settings

KE Severini, JR Ledford, RE Robertson - Journal of autism and …, 2018 - Springer
Interventions designed to decrease problem behavior for students with ASD are critical and
may be differentially important for students from minority groups as those students tend to be …

Maintenance and generalization in functional behavior assessment/behavior intervention plan literature

B Pennington, J Simacek, J McComas… - Journal of Behavioral …, 2019 - Springer
School practitioners increasingly use functional behavior assessments to design behavior
intervention plans when students engage in challenging behavior that is not improved by …

The generalization of mands

CF Miguel - The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2017 - Springer
The mand is a type of verbal operant whose response form is under control of a motivating
operation (MO). It is the first verbal operant to be acquired, directly benefits the speaker …

Conversation skills and self-initiated interactions in young adults with autism and intellectual disability

LC Chezan, E Drasgow, EM Grybos - Research in Autism Spectrum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Our purpose in this study was to increase conversations in three young adults
with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and co-occurring moderate intellectual disability (ID) …

Generalization and Discrimination of Positively Reinforced Explicit Mands in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

LC Chezan, A Bauer, E Drasgow… - Behavior …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit generalization errors following
mand training. In this study, we extended the literature on the generalization of positively …

On the distinction between the motivating operation and setting event concepts

MR Nosik, JE Carr - The Behavior Analyst, 2015 - Springer
In recent decades, behavior analysts have generally used two different concepts to speak
about motivational influences on operant contingencies: setting event and motivating …

Systematic review of mand training parameters for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities in school settings

MC Tapp, RC Pennington, AM Clausen… - Education and Training in …, 2021 - JSTOR
In the current investigation, we reviewed the literature on mand training for individuals with
intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in schools. Ninety-three studies met our …

Negatively-reinforced mands: An examination of resurgence to existing mands in two children with autism and language delays

LC Chezan, E Drasgow, CA Martin… - Behavior …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
In this study, we extended the literature on negatively-reinforced mands by teaching multiple
novel, socially appropriate alternative mands to two young children with autism spectrum …