The effects of listener training on the emergence of tact and mand signs by individuals with intellectual disabilities |
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Authors: | Ribeiro Daniela M Elias Nassim C Goyos Celso Miguel Caio F |
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Institution: | Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil;California State University, Sacramento |
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Abstract: | The purpose of the current study was to assess whether individuals with intellectual disabilities would emit untrained speaker responses (i.e., signed tacts and mands) after being taught listener behaviors. Listener relations were trained via an automated matching-to-sample (MTS) procedure. Following mastery, the emergence of signed tacts, generalized tacts, and mands was tested. All participants met criterion in listener relations training and showed the emergence of almost all relations. Results suggest that teaching listener relations first, through MTS tasks, is a viable way to produce emergence of speaker relations. |
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Keywords: | sign language tact mand conditional discrimination intellectual disabilities |
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