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

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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.

>

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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!

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Mom to , almost 6, austistic

and , 2 1/2, NT