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TEACHING A COMPLEX VERBAL RESPONSE TO A HEARING‐IMPAIRED GIRL
Author(s) -
Bennett Clinton W.,
Ling Daniel
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.1972.5-321
Subject(s) - imitation , psychology , girl , verb , audiology , hearing impaired , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , linguistics , social psychology , medicine , philosophy
A 3‐yr‐old hearing‐impaired girl, who used neither the article “the” nor the auxiliary verb “is” was taught to use these words in describing a picture, initially through imitation and then in response to the command, “Tell me about this”. As a result, she was able to use sentences in the present progressive form to describe a number of pictures on which she had received no training. This newly acquired behavior was subsequently extinguished and then reinstated.