Manding+(Requesting)

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Mands are requests by words, signs, pictures, pointing, eye gaze, etc.

Mand training teaches children that by communicating they get something desired in return.

Mands decrease problem behavior because it gives the child a way to get what they want appropriately.

After a child is requesting at a high rate, we work in more complex language.

Our job is to find ways to tempt the child to communicate for what they want.

__Example for a child with that speaks with 1-2 word sentences:__ Adult: has access to an item that the child wants Child: Says "Toy, please" (or a verbal approximation of that sentence)

__Example for a child with that speaks with 4 word sentences:__ Adult: has access to an item that the child wants Child: Says "I want toy, please" (or a verbal approximation of that sentence)