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Understanding Language Skills in Children

This document summarizes various skill areas related to language and behavior, including mand (requesting), tact (labeling), listener response, imitation, intraverbal skills (conversation), receptive language, and others. It provides examples of each skill area and how a tendency to say "candy" when wanting, seeing, or in response to others relates to each area. The document categorizes and defines key language and behavioral skills.

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Understanding Language Skills in Children

This document summarizes various skill areas related to language and behavior, including mand (requesting), tact (labeling), listener response, imitation, intraverbal skills (conversation), receptive language, and others. It provides examples of each skill area and how a tendency to say "candy" when wanting, seeing, or in response to others relates to each area. The document categorizes and defines key language and behavioral skills.

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  • Skill Area

SKILL AREA

Mand (Request)
1 Asking for reinforcers that you want.
2 A tendency to say candywhen you want it.

Tact (Label)
1 Naming or identifying objects, actions, events, relations, properties, etc.
2 A tendency to say candywhen you see candy.

Listener Response
Motor responses to what someone says.

Visual Performance / Match to Sample


Play
Imitation
Echoic
1 Repeating precisely what is heard, usually immediately.
2 A tendency to say candybecause someone else just said it.

Vocal Imitation
Social
Reading
Writing
LRFFC
Intraverbal
1 Answering whquestions or having a conversation so that what you say is
determined by what other person says.
2 A tendency to say candywhen someone else says What do you like to
eat?or something you eat is ___.

Group
Linguistics
Math

Motor Imitation
1 Copying someones motor movements.
2 A tendency to sign candywhen someone else signs candy.

Receptive Language
1 Following instructions or complying with the request.
2 A tendency to give someone candy after they say give me the candy.

SKILL AREA Mand (Request) 1 Asking for reinforcers that you want. 2 A tendency to say “candy”when you want it. Tact (Label) 1
Vocal Imitation Social Reading Writing LRFFC Intraverbal 1 Answering “wh”questions or having a conversation so that what you
Motor Imitation 1 Copying someone’s motor movements. 2 A tendency to sign “candy”when someone else signs candy. Receptive Lan

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