Teaching categorization to children with autism
I´m these days implementing new procedures on teaching categorization skills to the children receiving EIBI. In the planning and writing of procedures, I´m wondering what to try out now. The one thing that is certain is that the new procedures will build on knowledge and recent research on derived stimulus relations.
The first alternative is to implement procedure based on recommendations by Miguel and Petursdottir where the focus is to teach tacting og stimulus name and multiple tacting, both stimulus name and category name or label. There are several reasons to try this.
But, it would be interesting to try out a procedure including contextual cues as “contains”, “is a member of” in the teaching procedure. This may be harder to establish, but the generativity would probably be much greater.
Maybe I´ll end up trying out both. Anyone who have experience in any of these procedures?
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Easy. Send the little tykes through an ABA-accredited law school ! It works like a charm on the categorization skills for people with autism.
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