Establishing derived requesting skills in adults with severe developmental disabilities.
This project examined whether a history of reinforced relational responding would result in derived requesting skills in 3 adults with disabilities. Participants were first taught to request preferred items using pictures; they were then taught conditional discriminations between pictures and their dictated names and between dictated names and their corresponding text. Finally, requests for preferred items using corresponding text were evaluated. All 3 participants demonstrated derived requesting skills.
Rehfeldt
Ruth Anne
RA
Rehabilitation Institute, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA. rehfeldt@siu.edu
Root
Shannon L
SL
D000328:Adult; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male