title: Establishing five derived mands in three adolescent boys with autism.
abstract: Three 14-year-old boys with diagnoses of autism learned to mand for the delivery or removal of tokens by presenting nonsense syllables (A(1-5), respectively). A match-to-sample procedure was used to establish conditional discriminations between the 5 A stimuli and 5 B stimuli and between the B stimuli and 5 C stimuli. Subsequently, each participant was able to use the C stimuli to mand, illustrating a transfer of function, although 1 participant first required multiple-exemplar training.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, National University of Ireland Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. Carol.A.Murphy@nuim.ie
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.forename: Dermot
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Barnes-Holmes
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013060:Speech; D014163:Transfer, Psychology; D016896:Treatment Outcome