Rosie (jeremiah's mom)

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When doing RFFC and Intraverbals, does my son, , need to have

fully

mastered the various verbs used in the SD's (i.e., Show me something you

sit

on, You sleep in a )? Also, does need to have fully

mastered an understanding of the features and class aspects as well

(i.e.,

Show me something that has wheels, Show me something that has fur, Name

something you drive)? Or are we using RFFC and intraverbals to teach

these

concepts. I hope I am making sense.

I would appreciate any input and/or clarification! I find this list

very

helpful and will be referring to it a lot as we get started.

Hi Rosie ('s mom)

I will try to help with your question by using my knowledge from the

verbal behavior program I am a part of now. First off your son does not

need to completely understand the function, feature, or class of any

word you are working with before you start working on RFFC's. This is

when prompting (visual and verbal) come in handy. Also you may want to

try errorless training if he is getting alot wrong. Basically what

errorless is, you have 2 or 3 cards on the table from 2 or 3 different

classes, have your hand in front of all 3 cards and be prepared to block

his hand from responding wrong. If he starts going to the wrong card

block and redirect him to the correct card, give a moderate verbal

praise and redo the trial (correction trial) and praise heavily. You may

also want to do a distractor trial, which consists of a gross motor

imitation or anything else that is relatively easy for your son and

unrelated to the procedure at hand, then go back to the RFFC question to

ensure he was paying attention. Lay on the verbal praise and\or

reinforcer heavy for totally correct responses!!!!

You also want to give hard examples of the things you work with at the

table, such as show me where you sit, after he responds show him a chair

and then demostrate sitting. The real life example will be a much

better way of teaching in the long run, so try to incorporate it into

your training. For example, in our verbal behavior program we do an

hour of RFFC training a day. In that hour we also incorporate anything

in the environment that is directly related to the RFFC procedure done

at the table. We also do a half hour of environment labeling, tacting,

and receptive, which is completely done in the environment. We also

took pics of the environment to ensure generalization, which we sit at a

different location within the house, other than the usual table for

training. You want to make sure you are not only training at the one

table too. Move around your house make any opportunity you are with your

son a training opportunity.