Establishing mand emergence: The effects of three training procedures and modified antecedent conditions

Psychological Record

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 473-488

  Egan, Claire E ^a,b   Barnes Holmes, Dermot ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b Hong Kong Institute for Education   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Autism; Expressive language; Mand; Receptive language; Tact

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955451410     PISSN: 00332933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03395722     Document Type: Article

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