Applying Skinner's Analysis of Verbal Behavior to Persons With Dementia

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 120-126

  Dixon, Mark ^a   Baker, Jonathan C ^a   Sadowski, Katherine Ann ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE ABILITY; RECALL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE THERAPY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79551484317     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2010.05.002     Document Type: Article

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