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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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A Comparison of Topography-Based and Selection-Based Verbal Behavior in Typically Developed Children and Developmentally Disabled Persons with Autism
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Vignes, Tore – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2007
This study is a replication of Sundberg and Sundberg (1990) that compared topography-based verbal behavior with selection-based verbal behavior in terms of acquisition, accuracy, and testing for the emergence of a new verbal relation. Participants were three typical children and three developmentally disabled persons with autism. The study sought…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Verbal Communication, Children, Adolescents
Emergence of Untaught Mands or Tacts of Novel Adjective-Object Pairs as a Function of Instructional History
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Nuzzolo-Gomez, Robin; Greer, R. Douglas – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2004
We tested the effects of multiple exemplar instruction (MEI) on the emergence of untaught mands or tacts of adjective-object pairs in a multiple-probe design across four students with autism/developmental disabilities. None of the students emitted either mands or tacts for three sets of three adjective-object pairs (word sets counterbalanced…
Descriptors: Verbal Stimuli, Form Classes (Languages), Autism, Developmental Disabilities