Nesrhtens…..

I have the recent months been trying out a modified version of McHugh and Barnes-Holmes protocol for teaching the derived relational responding involved in Perspective taking. I have included some task from Weiss (2001), but essentially it´s a translated protocol from these two sources. I have also included some extra prompting-steps in the protocol.

The main challenge I have meet in the implementation of this protocol is to determined what prerequisite skills children need to master before starting this training, as some of the children I believed should master the protocol failed at the start of the protocol. So far it seems that these skills has to be mastered before starting the protocol:

• being able to respond with only social reinforcement
• being able to follow verbal instructions containing three steps
• being able to listen to a story, of at least 5 sentences, and correctly answer questions about the content.
• being able to tact most common objects
• being able to respond according to the relational frames of Coordination, Distinction, Opposition, Comparison and Hierarchy.

I quite convinced there are more prerequisite skills, but I´m still in the progress of determining them.

Related posts:

1. Teaching perspective-taking for children with autism – RFT
2. Group teaching of conversational skills to adolescents on the autism spectrum
3. VB-MAPP