Emergent Intraverbal Forms may Occur as a Result of Listener Training for Children with Autism

The team turned listener drills into a bingo game. Preschoolers with autism marked pictures while the teacher called names. Each correct mark earned labeled praise and quick pretend-play acting.

After the game, kids faced new wh- questions they had never practiced. The researchers watched to see if the game alone would spark full answers.

Every child started answering untrained questions right after the bingo sessions. The new intraverbal replies stayed strong at follow-up with no extra teaching.

Listener training, praise, and play modeling were enough to create speaker answers.

LaLonde et al. (2020) ran the same bingo package four years later and got the same jump in intraverbals. The match shows the game is a reliable way to produce emergent answers.

Shillingsburg et al. (2019) also saw emergent intraverbals, but they used quick mixes of old tact and listener trials instead of a game. Both paths work; bingo keeps kids smiling longer.

Alzrayer (2020) went further, trading the bingo board for intraverbal webbing. Webbing gave older kids flexible, divergent answers across many categories. Start with bingo for preschoolers, then shift to webbing when you need richer language.

You can run this package with one bingo board, a toy bin, and your voice. No extra intraverbal trials are needed after the listener game. Use it to jump-start wh- question answering in young learners, then track if the skill stays or needs a boost from webbing or fluency drills later.