Derived relational responding : applications for learners with autism and other developmental disabilities : a progressive guide to change / edited by Ruth Anne Rehfeldt & Yvonne Barnes-Holmes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reinforcer identifcation strategies and teaching learner readiness skills / Tomas S. Higbee -- Assessment of basic learning abilities (ABLA) and its relation to the development of stimulus relations in persons with autism and other intellectual disabilities / W. Larry Williams and Marianne L. Jackson -- Observing responses : foundations of higher order verbal operants / Dolleen-Day Keohane and Jo Ann Pereira Delgado and R. Douglas Greer -- Joint attention and social referencing in infancy as precursors of derived relational responding / Martha Peláez -- Establishing mand and tact repertoires / Linda A. LeBlanc and Courtney M. Dillon and Rachael A. Sautter -- Nonrelational and relational instructional control / Jonathan Tarbox, Rachel S.F. Tarbox and Denis O'Hora -- Naming and frames of coordination / Caio F. Miguel and Anna I. Petursdottir -- Acquiring the earliest relational operants : coordination, diference, opposition, comparison, and hierarchy / Carmen Luciano [and others] -- Applying relational operants to reading and spelling / Deisy G. de Souza, Julio C. de Rose and Camila Domeniconi -- Syntax, grammatical transformation, and productivity : a synthesis of stimulus sequences, equivalence classes, and contextual control / Harry A. Mackay and Lanny Fields -- Extending functional communication trough relational framing / Rocio Rosales and Ruth Anne Rehfeldt -- Training analogical reasoning as relational responding / Ian Stewart, Dermot Barnes-Holmes and Tim Weil -- Understanding and training perspective-taking as relational responding / Louise McHugh and Yvonne Barnes-Holmes and Dermot Barnes-Holmes -- Establishing empathy / Sonsoles Valdivia-Salas [and others] -- Mathematical reasoning / Chris Ninness [and others] -- Developing self-directed rules / Carmen Luciano [and others] -- Teaching flexible, intelligent, and creative behavior / Catriona O'Toole [and others].

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By implementing the techniques described in Derived Relational Responding, techniques based on a breakthrough new understanding of how humans acquire and use language, clinicians can make significant progress with their clients with autism and other developmental disabilities, limiting the loss of cognitive and social functioning that typically results from these conditions.

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