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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"mand"”.
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The Acquisition of Mand and Tact Responses
… study was designed to assess the acquisition of mand and tact responses as a result of mand or tact training. Three subjects were tauqht vocal responses corresponding to objects as requests (mands)or as labels (tacts). Responses in the untrained repertoire were also assessed. The results …
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Transfer of Mand Topographies to Tact Relations and Vice Versa in Two Vocal-Verbal Children with Autism
… suggested that verbal responses learned as mands are not necessarily emitted in tact relations and vice versa. Previous empirical research has found that newly acquired mands and tacts can be functionally independent. The present study investigated 1) whether novel responses taught in mand …
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Teaching children with autism spectrum disorder to mand for answers to questions via telehealth : a caregiver implementation.
… that target teaching individuals with ASD to mand (i.e., request) for information that we identified after conducting a review of the literature. Echoic prompting and naturalistic teaching are the most frequently used interventions to teach mands for information. However, no studies found were …
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Effects of Task Clarification and an Adaptive Computer Software on Implementation of Mand Training using an iPad® as a Speech Generated Device
<p>Mand training is an evidence-based instructional method and a primary focus in behavioral language training for children with autism. A rapidly growing research base supports manding training using hand-held computing technologies (e.g., iPad®, iPod®) as speech generating devices (SGD) for …
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The Effects of Question-Present Versus Item Present Conditions on Acquisition of Mands
A mand, often referred to as a request in lay terms, is a verbal operant that is under the control of an establishing operation and maintained by a specific reinforcer. Children with autism spectrum disorder often have difficulty learning mands and need supplemental training to learn this skill. …
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Functional and physiological discovery in the mannonate dehydratase subgroup of the enolase superfamily
… of the mannonate dehydratase subgroup (ManD) of the enolase superfamily (ENS). The outcome affirms the dangers of homology-based annotations while discovering novel metabolic pathways. Furthermore, the experimental verification of these pathways (in vitro and in vivo) has provided a …
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Emergence of vocalization in non vocal children with a diagnosis of autism: building an evidence base for interventions
… of stimulus-stimulus pairing (SSP) during sign-mand training on vocal emergence in 58 participants of whom 83% acquired vocal status. Experiment 2 studied the effect of prompt-delays during sign-mand training on 3 children who failed to acquire vocals one experiment 1 for 9-33 weeks. …
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Breastfeeding perceptions and practices of registered dietitians: A survey of Minnesota Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics members
… Minnesota Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (MAND). An electronic survey was distributed to all MAND members. The survey consisted of multiple choice and open-ended questions. Statistical analysis was completed with IBM SPSS Statistics 21. A significant inverse correlation (r<sup>2</sup> …
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Storybook reading with young children with autism: a parent-implemented communication intervention
… teaching strategies (i.e., modeling, mand-model, and time delay) and storybook reading techniques while reading books with her child with ASD. Using a multiple-baseline design across naturalistic teaching strategies, the following three study components were examined, (a) the parent’s …
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Evaluation of three methods for teaching intraverbals to children with language delays
… development. Specifically, incorporating mands into the instructional arrangement, increasing the quality of reinforcement delivered for interspersed tasks, and including instructive feedback stimuli into the consequences of learning trials have all demonstrated more efficient learning of …
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Cognitive and Perceptual-Motor Indicators of Lateralized vs. Diffuse Brain Damage in Adults.
… Assessment of Neuromuscular Development (MAND) and Haptic Visual Discrimination Test (HVDT), from the McCarron-Dial System Neuropsychological Assessment Battery (MDS), in ascertaining the presence or absence of brain damage as well as location of lesion. The classification accuracies of …
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Facilitating communication in a developmentally delayed child
… the target goal was to have the student mand (request) the word "juice." Aspects of four intervention techniques were implemented. The four techniques included; Easy Does it for Articulation : An Oral Motor Approach, Total Communication (TC), Augmentative and Alternative Communication …
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The effects of sign language training with young children: The tact
… communicative repertoire consisting of a single mand displayed only under controlled experimental conditions. This investigation sought to expand the signing repertoires of 6 typically developing children and 3 children of atypical development by (a) teaching tacts, (b) teaching multiple signs …
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The Effects of Pyramidal Training on Staff Acquisition of Five Behavior Analytic Procedures
… without replacement preference assessment, mand training, discrete trial teaching, and graphing discrete trial data). Pyramidal training was effective in increasing first tier participants’ procedural integrity of behavioral skills training steps and in increasing second tier participants’ …
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The Effects of Presession Attention on the Acquisition of Tacts and Intraverbals
… manipulations traditionally reserved for mand training can positively affect the acquisition of other verbal operants, and support the notion that there are unconditioned motivating operations associated with attention.</p>
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The Relative Effects of Pre Training Learners and Exemplar and Non Exemplar Video Skills Training on the Acquisition and Generalized Maintenance of Signing in Toddlers
… found that when taught 2 different signs (both a mand and a tact) for the same item, children only met the mastery criteria for manding, even when some tacting was acquired. It was found that a video modeling procedure including both exemplars and non-exemplars of both a trainer and a model was an …
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Hydrogenase utilization and regulation in species of methanosarcina
Methane producing archaea have a vital role in the global carbon cycle by facilitating the conversion of organic carbon into CO2 and methane. Species of Methanosarcina are unique among methanogens due to a versatile metabolism that allows the use of a wide range of substrates through four …
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