Manding 1
A learner says, signs or points to something they want.
A mand!
How do you assess a client's motivation?
Preference assessments
Why is it important to teach manding?
The patient learns their voice matters
What evokes you to do something or stops you from doing something
Motivating Operation (MO)
For a mand target that is not listed and the student requests the item unprompted.
Narrative preference assessment F0
Why is it important to model on the patients devices or verbally?
Errorless learning
A student asks for something that they haven't had in a really long time.
Deprivation
When implementing mand training, what should you aim to be consistent in?
requiring mands for all targeted exemplars
requiring the correct response for the mand
Provide consistent amount of reinforcement
Why is it important to teach "help"?
To reduce the patients frustration
A learner stops asking for the item because they've had too much of it.
Satiation
What will happen if the client is not required to mand for targeted items consistently because they have free access?
Decrease motivation to mand for those items at other times
Why is it important to teach "Break" or "all done" when the patient is successfully completing a demand?
The patient will learn how to end tasks appropriately
When the student is not motivated for any of the items you have out on the table during manding session.
Try something new
What strategy can you use to start fading your prompts for manding?
Control access and implement a time-delay (wait a few seconds before providing the prompt)
Move to the next prompt on the hierarchy
Review past data to determine where the client was successful during the previous session
What is the "one up" rule?
teaching more complex manding than one word requests