A mand may request an item or action; examples include 'game', 'play', 'swing', 'upside down', 'walk', 'cookie', etc. The purpose of mands is to communicate your precise wants and needs with the listener who must mediate to provide the access.

Thus, Skinner seems to be discussing two different forms of mand extension—one in which the same response form occurs across different discriminative stimuli and another in which the same response form occurs across different MOs.

Have a desirable item the child wants (held preferably near your face) Ask the child “What do you want?” “I want Car” (child should be saying “car” by now, teach him/her “I want”) “What do you want?” (Wait and let child say “I want car”) “Good saying I want car!” (rewards by giving car)

You need to know what the learner is MOST interested in, because those are the mands you will want to teach first. You teach reinforcers first -- before general nouns (“school”), before generalized mands (“more”), and before manners (“please”) --- because motivation is key.

The mand repertoire is essential for early language learners and is therefore of clinical importance. First, mands increase the probability of obtaining access to specific items, activities, actions, information, etc., when access to those stimuli is delivered or controlled by another person.

In order to teach mands for missing items the instructors will have to identify items and activities that are reinforcing to the student and then establish motivation for something else that the student will need to obtain the item or to complete a desired activity.

Mand training in ABA therapy consists of the following steps: Identify highly preferred items that are exciting enough for a child to mand for them. Withhold the preferred item and prompt the mand. ... Give the child access to the item as soon as they made an attempt or were successful in their mand.

A mand may request an item or action; examples include 'game', 'play', 'swing', 'upside down', 'walk', 'cookie', etc. The purpose of mands is to communicate your precise wants and needs with the listener who must mediate to provide the access.

Also known as a request, a mand is a type of learned behavior that is reinforced by a specific consequence. It is controlled by two things: A motivating operation (MO), usually a desire for an item/activity. And discriminative stimuli (SD), usually in the form of a listener.