TEACHING MANDING: HOW TO CAPTURE AND CONTRIVE MOTIVATION

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TEACHING MANDING HOW TO CAPTURE AND CONTRIVE
MOTIVATION

• Presented By Sharon Keppley M.Ed, BCBA and
• Amy Flores, M.Ed., BCBA
• Keppley Behavioral Consulting

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OBJECTIVES

• Define mand
• Explain the benefits of teaching manding first
• Describe how deprivation effects motivation
• Describe how satiation effects motivation
• Describe how motivative operation (MOs) can be
  used and manipulated to teach language

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MAND

• A mand is asking for the things that you want and
  is strengthened by getting them
• There is a tendency to say juice when you want
  it, and you get it
• Manding is what teaches the learner that talking
  or signing is useful

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MOTIVATION AND TEACHING LANGUAGE

• Talking is more easily acquired and occurs more
  often when the motivation is strong for desired
  items, objects or activities.
• It is easiest to teach language skills when the
  motivation is high

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MANDS PER DAY

• Contriving motivation results in a greater number
  of mands per day, thus more opportunities to
  develop language

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USE POWERFUL REINFORCERS

• Begin mand training by using the learners most
  powerful positive reinforcers

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TEACHING MANDS EXTENSIVELY

• Mand training should be taught extensively with
  early learners
• Manding for many items for which motivation has
  been captured leads to improvement in
  vocalizations.

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MOTIVATIVE OPERATIONS (MOs)

• Motivating operations are conditions in the
  learning environment that transform activities,
  food items and objects into reinforcers for the
  learner
• Transforming activities, food items, and objects
  into valuable reinforcers
• Then, using these activities, food items, and
  objects as reinforcers to teach the learner to
  mand, or request them

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DEPRIVATION

• Being deprived of a favorite reinforcer for a
  period of time increases the desire for that
  reinforcer.

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SATIATION

• Satiation affects all reinforcers
• The level of motivation for favorite videos,
  toys, activities, etc. can and does change
  frequently

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CONTRIVING MOTIVATION (MOs)

• Show the learner new ways to have fun playing
  with toys

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TRANSITIVE MOs

• When a learner has a strong MO, use this to teach
  them to mand for other item or actions valuable
  to obtaining the reinforcer

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ANDREW WITH KATHY

• Use motivation to increase the number and variety
  of mands
• Use Transitive MOs to teach mands for missing
  items
• Mand training should always be fun
• Contrive motivation by manipulating objects and
  activities

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MAND TRAINING INTENSITY

• Intensity of mand training is important to
  increase vocalizations
• Sign training sometimes fails to result in vocal
  responding when too few opportunities to mand are
  provided