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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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An Analysis of Autism as a Contingency-Shaped Disorder of Verbal Behavior
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Drash, Philip W.; Tudor, Roger M. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2004
This paper analyzes autism as a contingency-shaped disorder of verbal behavior. Contingencies of reinforcement in effect during the first to third year of a child's life may operate to establish and maintain those behaviors that later result in a diagnosis of autism. While neurobiological variables may, in some cases, predispose some children to…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Communication Disorders, Etiology, Autism
Is Autism a Preventable Disorder of Verbal Behavior? A Response to Five Commentaries
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Drash, Philip W.; Tudor, Roger M. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2004
This paper presents a response to five commentaries on our article "An Analysis of Autism as a Contingency-Shaped Disorder of Verbal Behavior" (Drash & Tudor, 2004). One of the principal objectives of that article is to provide the behavior analysis community and the autism community with a conceptual basis for analyzing autism as a behavioral…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Prevention, Autism, Etiology