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CUES‐PAUSE‐POINT LANGUAGE TRAINING: TEACHING ECHOLALICS FUNCTIONAL USE OF THEIR VERBAL LABELING REPERTOIRES
Author(s) -
McMorrow Martin J.,
Foxx R. M.,
Faw Gerald D.,
Bittle Ron G.
Publication year - 1987
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.1987.20-11
Subject(s) - psychology , multiple baseline design , cognitive psychology , nonverbal communication , point (geometry) , generalization , developmental psychology , intervention (counseling) , mathematical analysis , geometry , mathematics , psychiatry
We evaluated the direct and generalized effects of cues‐pause‐point language training procedures on immediate echolalia and correct responding in two severely retarded females. Two experiments were conducted with each subject in which the overall goal was to encourage them to remain quiet before, during, and briefly after the presentation of questions and then to verbalize on the basis of environmental cues whose labels represented the correct responses. Multiple baseline designs across question/response pairs (Experiment I) or question/response pairs and settings (Experiment II) demonstrated that echolalia was rapidly replaced by correct responding on the trained stimuli. More importantly, there were clear improvements in subjects' responding to untrained stimuli. Results demonstrated that the cues‐pause‐point procedures can be effective in teaching severely retarded or echolalic individuals functional use of their verbal labeling repertoires.