Decreasing Inappropriate Vocalizations through a Verbal Model

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Decreasing Inappropriate Vocalizations through a
Verbal Model

• Chanie Goldberg
• Gili Rechany
• Shema Kolainu-Hear Our Voices
• October 14,2004

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Functional Communication Literature

• Function of Academic Responses
• Establishing Operations
• Carr Durand, 1985
• Reducing Behavior Problems Through Functional
  Communication Training
• Schreibman Carr, 1978
• Elimination of echolalic responding to questions
  through the training of generalized verbal
  response.

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Current Investigation

• Our Problem
• Emittance of inappropriate vocalizations during
  individualized instruction.
• Socially inappropriate behavior.
• Objective
• Functional communication training through a
  verbal behavior model.

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Procedure

• DV Total number of inappropriate vocalizations
  emitted by the student.
• IVIntraverbal Training- Verbal behavior under
  the control of other verbal behavior (Greer,
  2002).
• Baseline
• Classroom Ratio 614
• Data collected between the hours of 830-1030,
  during individualized instruction.
• Mechanical counter utilized to record
  inappropriate vocalizations throughout ten-minute
  sessions.

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Procedure

• Intervention
• Intraverbal Training
• Academic programs
• 20 Learn Units
• Feature and Class
• Example
• Baseline- Point to red
• Intervention- The apple is ______

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Results
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Discussion/Conclusion

• Intraverbal training was an effective tactic in
  decreasing inappropriate vocalizations.
• What we learned
• Intraverbal training should be generalized to
  other settings to maintain results.
• Time sampling should be taken throughout the day.
  
• Current level of performance
• Intraverbal training will be implemented across
  multiple settings.