Promoting Language for Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Verbal Behavior Guide for Practitioners [Paperback]

Part 1: Introduction? 1. Verbal Behavior: A Functional Approach to Language? 2. Assessment of Verbal Behavior Repertoires? 3. Analog and Naturalistic Arrangements for Teaching Language to Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder? Part 2: Teaching? 4. Strategies for Assessing and Teaching the Mand? 5. Echoics? 6. Tacts? 7. Intraverbal Behavior: Towards Complex Language Development? 8. Listener Behavior? 9. Generative and Emergent Verbal Behavior? 10. The Role of Multiple Control in Teaching Verbal Behavior? 11. Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)? Part 3: Professionalism? 12. The Importance of Basic and Translational Language Research? 13. The Relevance of Culture and Diversity on Language Learning? 14. Collaborating with Other Service Providers

Promoting Language for Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Verbal Behavior Guide for Practitioners introduces the core principles of verbal behavior and provides practical, evidence-based strategies for teaching language skills to children with autism in applied settings.

This volume is far more than a 'how-to' manual of procedures: It includes discussions of the conceptual foundations of the science of verbal behavior, its relation to other disciplines, professional challenges, and deep analyses, not only of the elementary verbal operant classes, but of multiple control, the behavior of the listener, and emergent relations. Moreover, the extraordinary cast of participating authors includes the foremost experts in the field.

David C. Palmer, PhD, Western New England University

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