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OVERCOMING AN AUTISTIC CHILD'S FAILURE TO ACQUIRE A TACT REPERTOIRE
Author(s) -
Partington James W.,
Sundberg Mark L.,
Newhouse Lisa,
Spengler Schelley M.
Publication year - 1994
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.1994.27-733
Subject(s) - tact , psychology , nonverbal communication , stimulus control , stimulus (psychology) , repertoire , autism , communication , mand , developmental psychology , sign language , cognitive psychology , neuroscience , linguistics , physics , acoustics , nicotine , philosophy
A 6‐year‐old nonvocal autistic girl who had acquired over 30 signs as mands (requests), simple intraverbals (English‐sign translations), and imitative responses repeatedly failed to acquire a tact (labeling) repertoire. It was speculated that the verbal stimulus “What is that?” blocked the establishment of stimulus control by nonverbal stimuli. When procedures to transfer stimulus control from verbal to nonverbal stimuli were implemented, the subject quickly learned to tact all 18 target stimuli.