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50 Years of ERIC
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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Esch, John W.; Mahoney, Amanda M.; Kestner, Kathryn M.; LaLonde, Kate B.; Esch, Barbara E. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2013
Eleven typically developing children were assessed on the accuracy of prompted self-echoic responses following a 5-s delay from their initial echoic response, replicating procedures in Esch, Esch, McCart, and Petursdottir (2010) that compared discrepancies between echoic and self-echoic scores of autistic and typically developing children…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Responses, Children, Accuracy
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Esch, John W.; Esch, Barbara E.; McCart, Jordon D.; Petursdottir, Anna Ingeborg – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2010
In the behavioral literature, self-echoic behavior has been hypothesized to play an important role in, for example, emergent conditional discriminations (e.g., Lowenkron, 1991), emergent verbal operants (Horne & Lowe, 1996), and problem solving (Skinner, 1957). Although early behavioral intervention programs for children with autism emphasize the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Autism, Child Behavior, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Esch, John W.; Esch, Barbara E.; Love, Jessa R. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2009
Variability has been demonstrated to be an operant dimension of behavior (Neuringer, 2002; Page & Neuringer, 1985). Recently, lag schedules have been used to demonstrate operant variability of verbal behavior in persons with a diagnosis of autism (e.g., Lee, McComas, & Jawor, 2002). The current study evaluated the effects of a Lag 1 schedule on…
Descriptors: Verbal Stimuli, Autism, Identification, Nonverbal Communication