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Participants were four 14-year-old adolescent boys with diagnosed autism spectrum disorder and 3 children without diagnosed learning disorders aged 5 to 11. Training trials to establish more/less relational functions for 2 stimuli (X and Y, respectively) were interspersed with training trials to establish comparative relations among 5 other arbitrary stimuli (i.e., A is more than B, B is more than C, C is more than D, and D is more than E). Subsequent tests showed a derived transformation of functions for 7 participants (i.e., derived more/less mands). Exemplar training was required with 2 children. An ABA design with 3 participants showed manding was controlled by trained relations.
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The current study was partially funded by the Research and Graduate Studies Department at NUI Maynooth. Partial funding was also provided by the Irish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
We express our appreciation to the following people for their cooperation and assistance throughout the current research: Mark Ryan, Niamh Lane Kelly, and teachers who functioned as second investigators at a remedial unit that facilitated the current research.
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Murphy, C., Barnes-Holmes, D. Establishing Complex Derived Manding with Children with and Without A Diagnosis of Autism. Psychol Rec 60, 489–503 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03395723
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