title: The effects of behavioral skills training on mand training by staff and unprompted vocal mands by children.
abstract: We evaluated the effects of a training package, including instructions, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback, for training staff members to conduct mand training with children. Experimenters collected data on staff performance on each step of a task analysis of mand training and on unprompted child vocal mands. Training resulted in increases in staff performance in mand training and in unprompted mands by children. We observed replication of these effects across settings for all staff and for 3 of the children.
authors.affiliation: Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, Flushing, New York 11367, USA. DNBruzzi@gmail.com
authors.forename: Darlene
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nigro-Bruzzi
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sturmey
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D002659:Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / Q000628:therapy*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D013663:Teaching; D014705:Verbal Behavior