1. Decreasing Inappropriate Vocalizations through a Verbal Model Chanie Goldberg Gili Rechany Shema Kolainu-Hear Our Voices October 14,2004

2. Functional Communication Literature Function of Academic Responses Establishing Operations Carr & Durand, 1985 Reducing Behavior Problems Through Functional Communication Training Schreibman & Carr, 1978 Elimination of echolalic responding to questions through the training of generalized verbal response.

3. Current Investigation Our Problem: Emittance of inappropriate vocalizations during individualized instruction. Socially inappropriate behavior. Objective: Functional communication training through a verbal behavior model.

4. Procedure DV: Total number of inappropriate vocalizations emitted by the student. IV:Intraverbal Training- “Verbal behavior under the control of other verbal behavior (Greer, 2002).” Baseline: Classroom Ratio 6:1:4 Data collected between the hours of 8:30- 10:30, during individualized instruction. Mechanical counter utilized to record inappropriate vocalizations throughout ten- minute sessions.

5. Procedure Intervention: Intraverbal Training Academic programs 20 Learn Units Feature and Class Example: Baseline- “Point to red” Intervention- “The apple is ______”

6. Results

7. Discussion/Conclusion Intraverbal training was an effective tactic in decreasing inappropriate vocalizations. What we learned: Intraverbal training should be generalized to other settings to maintain results. Time sampling should be taken throughout the day. Current level of performance Intraverbal training will be implemented across multiple settings.