Mand training involves moving from stimulus control to motivating operation control.Tactsare a verbal operant where the speaker labels things in the environment. Tacts occur when a non-verbal stimulus is presented which becomes a discriminative stimulus (Sd) via discrimination training. What does man...
More recently, researchers have explored the clinical utility of reinforcing mand variability during mand training and functional communication training. However, limitations in the conceptual analysis of mand variability may have limited the kinds of questions addressed in this research and our ...
In the training, sessions only-tact training and sessions mand-tact training are alternated, according to the principles and procedures of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). The results obtained show that the mand-tact training is more effective than the only-tact training in the rapid acquisition ...