Empirical Application of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior to Interventions for Children with Autism: A Review

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - Sundberg and Michael (2011) reviewed the contributions of Skinner’s (1957) Verbal Behavior to the treatment of language delays in children with autism...     

Establishing Derived Equivalence Relations of Basic Geography Skills in Children with Autism

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - The present study evaluated the efficacy of a stimulus-equivalence training procedure in teaching basic geography skills to two children with autism. The...     

Behavioral Language Interventions for Children with Autism: Comparing Applied Verbal Behavior and Naturalistic Teaching Approaches

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - Several important behavioral intervention models have been developed for teaching language to children with autism and two are compared in this paper....     

Evaluating the Effects of Similar and Distinct Discriminative Stimuli During Auditory Conditional Discrimination Training With Children With Autism

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - Children with autism are often taught auditory conditional discriminations in the form of personal information questions that might prove useful in conversation...     

Towards a Balanced Account of Autism Etiology

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - Drash and Tudor describe six sets of reinforcement contingencies which may be present in the environments of some children eventually diagnosed with autism and...     

An Investigation of Stimulus Pairing and Listener Training to Establish Emergent Intraverbals in Children with Autism

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - We examined two methods to facilitate the emergence of untaught intraverbal responses to children with autism. Listener behavior training (LT) involved...     

Intraverbal Training for Individuals with Autism: The Current Status of Multiple Control

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - Teaching complex intraverbal responding to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be challenging and often requires careful programming. Divergent and...     

The Effects of the Interspersal of Related Responses on the Emergence of Intraverbals for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - The present study evaluated the emergence of intraverbals for 2 children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Prior to baseline, both children demonstrated...     

An Analysis of Autism as a Contingency-Shaped Disorder of Verbal Behavior

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - This paper analyzes autism as a contingency-shaped disorder of verbal behavior. Contingencies of reinforcement in effect during the first to third year of a...     

Teaching the Mand “When?” to Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - People diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may need specific teaching to learn mands for information. Unfortunately, little research has been published...     

Autism as a Contingency-Shaped Disorder of Verbal Behavior: Evidence Obtained and Evidence Needed

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - Drash and Tudor’s argument that autism is a contingency-shaped disorder of verbal behavior is logical and consistent with behavioral principles, but the...     

Commentary on Drash and Tudor: An Analysis of Autism as a Contingency-Shaped Disorder of Verbal Behavior

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - A critique is presented of the etiological model for autism as presented by Drash and Tudor. The model is rejected based upon conceptual and methodological...     

Teaching Children with Autism to Mand for Information Using “Why?” as a Function of Denied Access

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - The current study evaluated a procedure used to teach two children with autism to ask “why” questions maintained by causal information about an event....     

Teaching Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder to Mand “Why?”

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - For most children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), manding for information is an important skill that must be systematically taught. Although previous studies...     

Contriving Establishing Operations to Teach Mands for Information

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - Many children with autism cannot effectively ask wh- questions to mand for information, even though they may have extensive tact, intraverbal, and receptive...     

The Induction of Naming in Children with No Prior Tact Responses as a Function of Multiple Exemplar Histories of Instruction

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - The phenomenon identified as naming is a key stage of language function that is missing in many children with autism and other language delay diagnoses. We...     

Using Intraverbal Prompts to Establish Tacts for Children with Autism

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - Some children with autism have difficulty acquiring tacts, despite their ability to mand, echo words, and imitate actions. The current study focused on 2 nonvocal...     

A Comment on Drash and Tudor’s (2004) Operant Theory of Autism

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - The authors comment on Drash and Tudor’s operant theory of autism. Concerns with the theory’s face validity and empirical support are presented, along...     

Autistic Behavior,Behavior Analysis,and the Gene

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - This article addresses the meaning of autism, the etiology of autistic behavior and values, the naturenurture debate, contingencies vs. genes, and resistance to a...     

Staffing the Empirical Analysis of Verbal Behavior

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - Empirical articles in The Analysis of Verbal Behavior were inspected to evaluate the contributions of new and repeat investigators. The journal has attracted a...