Linda LeBlanc, PhD, BCBA-D | Maximizing Stimulus Control for Receptive Language

Linda LeBlanc, PhD, BCBA-D
Discrimination training is one of the most important components of early intensive behavioral interventions. In order to design effective discrimination training procedures, behavior analysts and teachers must understand the critical differences between simple and conditional discrimination procedures. This presentation will review research findings that inform our understanding of stimulus control with a specific application to receptive language programming as described in Grow and LeBlanc (2012). Receptive language refers to responding appropriately to another person's spoken language (e.g., responding to your name, following directions, responding to names and features of objects). This presentation will include 5 critical best practices for designing and implementing programming for receptive language. In addition, this presentation will include the potential negative effects for deviating from these recommendations and strategies for troubleshooting and eliminating stimulus control problems that may have been created by prior non-optimal programming.