Teaching Verbal Behavior to Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

摘要: It has often been said that the characteristic which distinguishes humans from all other animals is capacity for language (Pinker in The Language Instinct, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1994). essential to our species and contributes its survival various ways. An understanding of spoken written rules, example, represents an efficient means learning, whereby certain undesirable consequences can be avoided altogether (e.g., one does not need hit by a car when crossing street know first look before crossing). also medium culture propagated. Folklore, traditions, values, societal norms, laws are passed down generation next through language. Thus, it imperative only understand others, but develop effective communication understood.