Seven years of podcasting and we’ve never actually sat down to discuss how to teach manding. This week, we make up for lost time by pulling from a variety of mand training research quandrants to see what’s new to up our mand game. We’ve got mand assessments, manding with speech generating devices, and the ombudsmand (a term Rob has refused to stop using).

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Articles discussed this episode:

Bourret, J., Vollmer, T.R., & Rapp, J.T. (2004). Evaluation of a vocal mand assessment and vocal mand training procedures. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 37, 129-144. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2004.37-129

Suberman, R. & Cividini-Motta, C. (2020). Teaching caregivers to implement mand training using speech generating devices. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 53, 1097-1110. doi: 10.1002/jaba.630

Ward, S.N., Hanley, G.P., Warner, C.A., & Gage, E.E. (2021). Does teaching an omnibus mand preclude the development of specifying mands? Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 54, 248-269. doi: 10.1002/jaba.784

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Episode 242 - Mand Training