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We are also looking at F7, I told his teacher to model it for him. Like

when he is doing something fun, like jumping in a pool or kicking a ball, I

want him to say " Look what I can do! " I know it is corny, but I can't

think of anything else right now. So if anyone can or has come up with

something that worked for you please let us know.

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At 10:08 PM 5/28/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>I am working on F7 on the ABLLS. I wonder how you get your child to

>mand for attention to see what they have done. For example, my son

>is an excellent line drawer. But he will draw something amazing on

>his magnadoodle, and you have to fight him to even get a glimpse at

>it. How have others handled it?

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we are currently working on this. We instruct her to do an activity like

worksheet, drawing, writing, puzzle, putting together something and when she is

done we prompt her to come to us and say 'Mommy look' while showing us the

finished product. We then give her a tangible reinforcer. Having a third person

prompting her would be better.

Mahija

Mahija and Ajay

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In a message dated 5/28/02 8:57:57 PM Central Daylight Time,

roseal10@... writes:

> So if anyone can or has come up with

> something that worked for you please let us know.

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> Rose

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Rose and list,

We teach this as a component of an activity schedule using the written

prompt " Show Mom " and the visual cue of pointing to the therapist's own

shoulder to remind non verbal Colin to touch Mom's shoulder to get her

attention.

in WI.

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hi there,

all excellent responses so far on this subject! here are two more :)

1) remembering that the whole point of what we are doing is to help somebody

map internal feelings to external actions, you need to find a way to build

the desire to want to share, an then be able to express that desire.

modeling, although very natural and effective for most, does not directly

address the issue. the one post about spontaneous tacting (really mands for

attention) was on the teaching track. one way to attempt to teach this is to

place strong reinforcers in unusual places, and when the child first sees

it, prompt with " look,... " or " there a... " , etc.

2) in my opinion, i've seen the biggest improvement in this and almost all

other areas by exposure to typical peers. if your child is the least bit

motivated to be around other children, then use that. when we first got our

dx, i thought if we could just get him to talk, everthing else would fall

into place. in hindsight, socialization was the much greater skill to teach

(not that language wasn't very important). once a child is interested in

peers, its likely he/she will be learning from/like them. you'll still have

to provide support, but its more natural.

--aaron

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A general question about manding for attention. The ABBLS seems to define

this as a mand for others attention to the speakers accomplishments. Would

this skill include a mand for attention for the purpose of presenting the

listener with a subsequent mand for an object or action:

" Hey Mommy, I'm hungry "

" Mommy, come this way "

[ ] manding for attention

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>I was asked off list about what we are trying to teach manding

>for attention. We have for about 5 weeks prompted this and

>have yet to encounter an unprompted response. We are also

>modeling manding for attention - for example, we jump high on

>the trampoline and say to Grace: " watch how high I can jump "

>or " look at how high I am jumping. The list of targets: Making

>a basket(as in basketball not weaving like my therapist

>thought when they saw the data sheet!) Jumping high on

>trampoline Puzzle Potato head Painting/drawing Cute hairdo(my

>daughter like ponytails for about 1-2 minutes and looks at

>herself a lot in the mirror while it is up, this one really a

> " girl " thing) Tall block tower Riding in her toy car with a

>doll The therapist or I prompt her to say to the other

>one " look at this " . " look what I did " " watch this " or some

>similar phrase. When there is only one adult it is

>considerably trickier and mostly we model it for her. Any

>other suggestions on fading our prompt? Has anyone used a

>vibrating pager or timer to encourage initiation of this

>skill?

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