Responding to questions regarding one's environment is a fundamental skill. In neuro-typical children, responding differentially to questions emerges before the age of two through interactions with caregivers, in which novel words are learned in the presence of both verbal and nonverbal stimuli.
For children diagnosed with autism, however, such question discrimination skills can b significantly impaired. An error frequently observed in clinical practice is that of the child who, despite previous mastery of the relevant colour tacts, says “Ball” when presented with a blue ball and the question “What colour?”
Recently, a number of papers have explored the role of multiple verbal and nonverbal control in early intraverbal-tacting as a basis for clinical intervention with particular focus on autoclitic framing. This concept and derived procedures will be discussed in two connected presentations. In this first presentation the focus will be on providing a theoretical analysis based on multiply-controlled verbal behavior. Second, a framework for assessing discriminating questions on nonverbal (visual) stimuli will be offered. Third, a complete sequence of instruction to establish generative discriminated responding to verbal and visual stimuli will be outlined. The aim of this presentation is to provide practitioners with a sequence of instruction to establish generative discriminated responding and avoid conditional discrimination errors, prior to establishing intraverbal responding on nonvisible properties such as functions, features and classes of items.
Learning outcomes:
- describe sources of multiple stimulus control in verbal behaviour
- describe procedures to establish generalised question discrimination on visual stimuli
- describe an instructional sequence to establish question discrimination skills regarding objects and events
Credits: Act 48, EITA/Infant-Toddler, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, BACB, ASHA, PSYCH
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