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While at the National Autism Conference, Dr. Tim Vollmer discussed establishing cooperation when interacting with students with autism.

Social initiation and communication deicits are hallmarks of autism. Mand training provides a method to teach children to ask for what they want and to initiate interactions with others. This session will discuss the basic principles and procedures of teaching children to make requests. It will include techniques to establish motivation, teach children to approach other people, and to develop a broad range of effective requesting behaviors.

Provides a demonstration of mand training procedures with a student using vocalization as a response form. Narration provides a description of instructional elements highlighted in this clip.

Provides a demonstration of mand training procedures with a student using sign language as a response form. The footage shows the session without narration.

Provides a demonstration of mand training procedures with a student using vocalization as a response form. Narration provides a description of instructional elements highlighted in this clip.

Provides a demonstration of mand training procedures with a student using sign language as a response form. The footage shows the session without narration.

Provides a demonstration of mand training procedures with a student using sign language as a response form. Narration provides a description of instructional elements highlighted in this clip.

Provides a demonstration of mand training procedures with a student using vocalization as a response form. Narration provides a description of instructional elements highlighted in this clip.

Provides a demonstration of mand training procedures with a student using sign language as a response form. The footage shows the session without narration.

Provides a demonstration of mand training procedures with a student using sign language as a response form. Also includes one example of teaching the transfer of signed skills to vocal responding. Narration provides a description of instructional elements highlighted in this clip.