Language Intervention

[@nemeglessisaballi5309]

Great Presentation! Love It Dr. Sundberg

[@TSiebold1]

I need more videos to use as training resources!

[@mayadael-sabbah5236]

Thanks a million for sharing this

[@thujigrace4968]

Thank you.. so helpful

[@virginiaolv]

Thank you!

[@ghost3990]

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[@Neilgs]

Completely and egregiously misguided. Skinner was put into the grave with Chonsky's seminal paper on Skinner in 1959. Furthemore, it is NOT verbal language that is a core primary challenge with children with ASD but rathe r affective (emotional) reciprocal back and forth interactive engagement which comes from increased feeling of internal safety (autonomic HPA axis, stress response and fight, flight freeze vs. increased ventral vagus activation facial/visual, auditory-prosodic, tactilte gestural interactions). Language (unless there are very specific oral motor apraxia challenges is a completely seamless and natural function that is a down-regulated executive function which emerges as the child feels (increasingly) safe to engage (regulate/co-regulate) with others. It comes "online" naturally with some social-pragmatic modeling as needed but always with the understanding that it is never "language" that is the challenges with children on the spectrum but rather interpersonal regulated/co-regulated back and forth affect regulation It never ever has to be specifically taught and artifically and I dare say utterly reoprehensibly, egregiously and reductionistically broken down, i.e., echoic, mand, tact, intraverbal, etc. The latter is completely embrassingly misguided!

[@SydBarrett91]

Try to read more about term "verbal" in the context of behavior analysis. When you criticize something in science you should be fluent in that science's jargon.

[@Neilgs]

@@SydBarrett91 Oh really Syd?! Methinks you are misunderstanding the above. In order for expressive verbal language which naturally includes "listening behavior" or any communicative act, the underlying foundation that comprise regulatory/co-regulatory interpersonal communication must be in place. Specifically, the supra-diaphragmatic parasympathetic nervous system (i.e., the cranial nerves or what are known as special visceral efferents which form a single column in the brain stem, the myelinated or the ventral vagus - which includes the heart to the head, face, ears, laryngeal and pharyngeal nerves). We can also refer to this as our human mammalian preverbal social-pragmatic communication system which must be online, then language proper comes online. All of this is done by the child internally (or interoceptively) feeling autonomically safe and secure, as opposed to his/her ventral vagus coming offline and recruited for adaptive sympathetic-adrenal fight/flight responses or parasympathetic dorsal vagus withdrawal, dissociation and freeze.

[@SydBarrett91]

@@Neilgs Sorry to interupt. You definitely are not eager to understand something new. good luck.

[@matthewcunningham-cook9404]

@@Neilgsyou are correct but there are multiple truths in this situation.