FW: Re: Teaching mands for information: Who is that? and What is...

June 7, 2002

Discrimination Training. This is exactly what happens with SD that are

very

similar like " what is it? " " what colour is it " " what does it

do " ...Sundberg

presented on this at the ABA conference in Toronto. Set out three cards

and

go through " what is it " " who is it " " where is it " . Make sure that these

are

strong / mastered independently and then mix them up in trials randomly.

All children's repetoires fall apart when this level of discrimination is

required. But it is an important skill for real life. Good luck...Dina

[ ] Re: Teaching mands for information: " Who is that? "

and " What is that? "

In a message dated 6/6/2002 7:17:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

writes:

> We have a problem with him confusing " what " and " who " , if anybody has

any

> suggestions for this, I'd appreciate them.

>

,

Hi! We taught What is that? and Who is that? basically the same way

you described. We taught him to discriminate between them by mixing

known

and unknown objects with known and unknown people (we used oddball

occupation

cards) all in one long line of cards on the table. At one point we also

added in " What's that word? " because it was a mand he wanted to use (he

was

reading some and very interested in new words), but had trouble

discriminating with the three similar mands. So then he had known and

unknown things, people, and words all mixed together. With errorless

teaching and quick prompt fading he got them all and now uses them all in

the

natural environment. Good luck!

---

Mom to , almost 6, austistic

and , 2 1/2, NT

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