Manding Basics
A request for something wanted or needed, or a request to end something undesirable
What is a mand?
When a patient already has motivation for the item or activity, you doing this
What is capturing motivation?
This is the most common prompt used for vocal manders
What is a vocal prompt?
When something is added to the environment and it increases the future frequency of the behavior, it is this type of reinforcement
What is positive?
This is differentially reinforcing successive approximations to a specified target behavior.
Motivation is the _____ to the mand
Setting up a situation in which a patient will then need to mand, you doing this
What is contriving motivation?
Least to most prompting would be done in this order for a PECS user
What is Vocal --> Gestural --> Model --> Partial Physical?
When something is removed from the environment and it increases the future frequency of the behavior, it is this type of reinforcement
What is negative?
You start with this type of behavior to reinforce when shaping.
What is small and achievable?
A mand directly benefits this person
Who is the speaker?
Typically patients starting manding with this many words
What is one?
PECS and AAC devices should be kept at this distance from speaker
What is next to them?
When using a token board, a token should be provided after this
What is a correct response? (this may include mastered and acquisition goal targets)
This is the first step of shaping.
What is identify the terminal behavior?
A mand is seen at what point in a person life
When is at birth?
This combination is usually best for teaching 2 word mands
What is verb noun/noun verb?
Physically prompting from this area for a AAC user arm is the best method
What is underneath the wrist? (to not block the screen)
If when providing a preferred item to one of your patients and their responding to your question is increasing, the item is not this.
What is reinforcement?
Once a step in the shaping process is mastered, you no longer do this.
What is reinforce that approximation?
A mand is reinforced by this
What is the requested item?
On an AAC device, the sentence bar can be used for repeated requests. True or False
True
Consistently using "What do you want?" can create this in a speaker
What is prompt dependency?
Free operant observation, paired stimulus, single stimulus, MSW, and MSWO are all this.
What is preference assessments?
Provide an example of shaping
Example provided by team