Derived relational mands in children with autism.
In a recent published study, Murphy and Barnes-Holmes, showed successfully establishing derived mands in children with autism in the relation of more-less. This study is published in Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
This is an important contribution to research on language teaching for children with autism. To effectively establish a flexible mand repertoire in children with autism, an approach that needs to directly train every mand that the child requires will not be sufficient. So by developing procedures to teach derived transfer would improve the behavior analytic approach to teach children with autism further.
In this study the researcher managed to establish derived manding with three, e.g four, children diagnosed with autism. And they arranged control conditions that support their findings. Showing that teaching derived manding through conditional discrimination are possible with children with autism.
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