Using Precision Teaching to Evaluate the Effects of Tact Training on Intraverbals Relations

Behav Anal Pract. 2023 Sep 21;17(1):332-337. doi: 10.1007/s40617-023-00859-0. eCollection 2024 Mar.

Abstract

Interventions involving precision teaching (PT) and fluency-based instruction may promote the acquisition of intraverbal repertoires. We examined the effects of tact fluency training on the emergence of untrained intraverbal component-composite relations for three participants with autism and mild to moderate intellectual disability. We used a multiple-probes across participants design across the three participants, with additional replication across thematic clusters for one participant. The results suggest a relation between tact fluency training and the emergence of untrained intraverbal responses may exist. All participants learned to name items in a category without a nonverbal discriminative stimulus.

Keywords: autism; component; composite; fluency; intellectual disabilities; intraverbal; precision teaching; standard celeration chart; tact.