I keep hearing VB terms like manding, tacting, and intraverbals. My child can say 10 words, how does that relate to the VB model?
While most traditional speech therapists and ABA practitioners break language into receptive and expressive categories, BF Skinner and later Drs. Sundberg and Partington broke language down even further. They realized that children with severe language impairments did not follow the typical developmental sequence for acquiring language. Furthermore, they realized that many children with autism had very scattered skills. One child with autism may be able to verbally label (in VB terms, tact) 100 items. That same child, who may be able to say “cookie” when presented with a picture of a cookie, could not ask for (or mand) for cookie when she wanted one. That child could also not say the word cookie or even point to a cookie if you said, “you eat a _______”. This fill-in-the-blank is called an intraverbal in VB terminology. The child also could not say “cookie” if you said, “say cookie”. So his verbal imitation skills were also very poor. This child’s profile could be exactly opposite from
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