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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