A Comparison of Intraverbal and Listener Training for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Tiffany Kodak; Amber R Paden

doi:10.1007/s40616-015-0033-3

A Comparison of Intraverbal and Listener Training for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Anal Verbal Behav. 2015 Mar 24;31(1):137-44. doi: 10.1007/s40616-015-0033-3. eCollection 2015 Jun.

Authors

Tiffany Kodak¹, Amber R Paden²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2441 E. Hartford Ave., Garland 210, Milwaukee, WI 53211 USA.
² Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE USA.

Abstract

The present investigation compared acquisition of intraverbals and listener behavior by function, feature, and class (FFC) for two children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We also measured tacts during listener training to evaluate whether higher levels of tacts predicted the emergence of intraverbal behavior following training. The results showed that intraverbal training required as many or fewer sessions to reach the mastery criterion than listener training by FFC, and intraverbal training consistently produced emergent listener behavior. In comparison, listener training by FFC did not consistently lead to the emergence of intraverbal behavior.

Keywords: Autism spectrum disorders; Intraverbal behavior; Listener training.