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Using Transfer Procedures to Teach Tacts to a Child with Autism

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This applied study attempted to evaluate a combination of transfer procedures commonly used to teach tacts to children with autism. A receptive to echoic to tact transfer and an echoic to tact transfer procedure were combined during 5-min instructional sessions to teach tacts to a seven-year-old vocal child with autism. A multiple baseline design across three sets of ten tacts was used. Without the teaching procedure, the child acquired no target tacts. With the 5-min teaching procedure implemented first with Set 1 then with Sets 2 and 3, respectively, the child acquired thirty new tacts over sixty teaching sessions. The results have wide application for children with and without autism who need instruction to learn tacts.

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  1. Pennsylvania Verbal Behavior Project, USA

    Mary L. Barbera

  2. Department of Educational and School Psychology and Special Education, The Pennsylvania State University, 209 CEDAR Bldg., University Park, PA, 16802-3109, USA

    Richard M. Kubina Jr.

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Barbera, M.L., Kubina, R.M. Using Transfer Procedures to Teach Tacts to a Child with Autism. Analysis Verbal Behav 21, 155–161 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03393017

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