Think Before You Speak: Increasing a Student’s Appropriate Verbal Responses During Classroom Instruction

Think Before You Speak: Increasing a Student’s Appropriate Verbal Responses During Classroom Instruction

This study compared the effects of two intervention packages on increasing the appropriate verbal responses of a 7th-grade student. The interventions were determined by the results of a functional assessment of behavior. An alternating interventions design was used. Both intervention packages were successful in increasing the target behavior.