Research: Teaching Intraverbal Behavior to Children with Autism

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Authored by Goldsmith, TR, LeBlanc LA, and Sautter RA in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Volume 1, Issue , p. 1-13, (2007).

Article summary (posted Jul 5, 2007):

Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) therapy can be used to help children with autism learn how to make casual conversation.

Intraverbal speech includes the words that most people say throughout the day that have little meaning such as saying "you too" in response to "have a nice day." The study was designed to see to if it is possible to teach intraverbals to children with autism using the Skinner theories of verbal behavior (part of ABA). The authors were able to teach intraverbals but they had trouble getting the children to use intraverbals and generalize intraverbals. They believe that this meant that Skinner was right in certain ways about how children learn to speak. More work needs to be done in order to help children maintain and generalize their knowledge of intraverbals.

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applied behavior analysis (ABA), autism, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), generalization, speech therapy, therapy, verbal, verbal behavior (VB) training
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