Child and adult social--emotional benefits of response-contingent child learning opportunities.
Abstract Findings from two studies of 42 children with profound developmental delays (26 males and 15 females) using systematic and intense response-contingent learning opportunities interventions are reported. Response-contingent learning games were used to promote the participants' use of behavior that either produced environmental consequences or elicited reinforcing...
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The effects of daily intensive tact instruction on the emission of pure mands and tacts in non-instructional settings by three preschool children with developmental delays.
Abstract We tested the effects of an intensive tact instruction procedure on the emission of verbal operants in non-instructional settings by three preschool students with developmental delays. The participants were selected because they emitted low numbers pure verbal operants in non-instructional settings throughout the school day. Specifically,...
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Generalized selection-based auditory matching and the emergence of the listener component of naming.
Abstract We tested the effects of teaching an auditory match to sample repertoire on the emergence of the listener half of the verbal developmental cusp of Naming for 2-preschool students with language-based disabilities. The study was conducted in a special education CABAS[R] preschool. Neither of the students...
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Message from the publisher.
BAO Journals will soon publish a two issue, edited volume entitled "Behavior Analysis Review 2007," which will contain a "best of" selection of articles that were previously published in the Behavior Analyst Today. BAO is a special interest group within the Association for Behavior Analysis International. As...
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The effects of implementing a classwide peer tutoring model on social approvals and disapprovals emitted during unstructured free time.
Abstract This study tested a classwide peer tutoring model using rule-governed responding to teach tutors to accurately present learn units during social studies instruction using a multiple baseline across participants with pre and post intervention probes. Three students, aged 8 to 10, in a self-contained 3rd/4th grade...
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Introduction to volume 4.2 of the journal of early and intensive behavioral intervention.
This issue offers seven reports of experiments, two reviews of the literature, and a book review. The lead article by Dunst et al. provides our readers with two analyses of the "benefits of "response contingent child learning opportunities" for profoundly disabled participants and their parents. This is interesting and...
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The effects of observational training on the acquisition of reinforcement for listening.
Abstract Experiment 1 investigated the effects of observational training in a social listener reinforcement game on participants' conversational units in non-instructional settings. Experiment 2 tested the effects of multiple exemplar instruction on the development of "empathy." The participants who had reader/writer levels of verbal behavior were selected...
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The effects of a peer-yoked contingency on observational learning and the collateral emergence of naming.
Abstract We tested the effects of a Peer-Yoked Contingency on students' acquisition of observational learning repertoires and collateral effects on naming. Three male middle school participants, diagnosed with emotional and behavioral disabilities, were selected for this study. The three participants did not have naming repertoires, and two...
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Behavioral parent-training approaches for the treatment of bedtime noncompliance in young children.
Abstract Bedtime noncompliance is one of the most common and treatable types of child sleep problems. Children who are noncompliant at bedtime are more likely to exhibit daytime somnolescence, which may in turn lead children to exhibit daytime misbehavior, impaired social functioning and poorer school achievement. In...
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Improving treatment outcome for oppositional defiant disorder in young children.
Abstract Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) is relatively common among 3-8 year-old children and its presence puts children at risk for more serious and stable behavior problems. Behavioral Parent Training (BPT) as the most empirical support as a treatment for children with ODD as well as for children...
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A review of Mary Lynch Barbera & Tracy Rasmussen's the verbal behavior approach: how to teach children with autism and related disorders.
This is an informative and important addition to the books that exist for parents of children with autism spectrum disorders. While the interest in Verbal Behavior programming for learners with autism has mushroomed over the past few years, there is a paucity of books outlining how to implement the...
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The effects of writer immersion and the responses of a peer reader on teaching the function of writing with middle school students.
Abstract We tested the effects of writer immersion and the responses emitted by a peer reader across four male middle school participants diagnosed with behavioral disorders. The participants were chosen for this study due to their high structural errors and inability to write functionally in order to...
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