Day 1: Verbal Behavior and Language Development: The Integrative Approach matters because it changes what a BCBA notices when decisions have to hold up in clinic sessions and day-to-day service delivery. In Day 1: Verbal Behavior and Language Development: The Integrative Approach, for this course, the practical stakes show up in service continuity, accurate reporting, and defensible clinical decisions, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Behavior analysts use principles of learning to teach a variety of skills to their clients, including verbal behavior. To effectively design teaching lessons, behavior analysts must understand the sequence by which elementary verbal operants and related skills are acquired by typically developing children. In this talk, I will draw on my 20 years of experimental and applied research on the development of bidirectional naming (BiN) and symbolic behavior to describe how clinicians can sequence early language training to produce meaningful outcomes. I will emphasize how children must learn to respond as listeners to their own speaker behavior to be able to learn incidentally and acquire more complex cognitive skills. This teaching approach integrates a behavioral understanding of child development, prioritizes selecting targets relevant to specific clients, and is both unstructured and highly reinforcing.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
Dr. Caio Miguel is a Professor of Psychology at California State University, Sacramento. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, a former Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, and a former editor for The Analysis of Verbal Behavior. Dr. Miguel's research focuses on the study of verbal behavior and emergent stimulus relations. He has given hundreds of professional presentations around the world, and has had over 100 manuscripts published in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. He is the recipient of the 2013 award for outstanding scholarly work by the College of Social Sciences at Sacramento State, the 2014 Outstanding Mentor Award by ABAI, the 2019 Award for Excellence in Teaching Verbal Behavior by the VBSIG, the 2019 Alumni Achievement Award from the Department of Psychology at Western Michigan University, the 2020 Jack Michael Award for Outstanding Contributions to Verbal Behavior, and the 2026 Don Hake Award for Translational Research by Division 25 of the American Psychological Association.
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279 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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All behavior-analytic intervention is individualized. The information on this page is for educational purposes and does not constitute clinical advice. Treatment decisions should be informed by the best available published research, individualized assessment, and obtained with the informed consent of the client or their legal guardian. Behavior analysts are responsible for practicing within the boundaries of their competence and adhering to the BACB Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts.