Verbal Development 1

Pre-Reader Capabilities Book Stimuli Conditioned Reinforcement for Observing Self-Talk (Rotating Speaker and Listener Roles Within Own Skin) Say-Do in Speaker-as Own Listener Function Full Naming Speaker Component of Naming Transformation of Establishing Operations (Leaning Mand or Tact Results in Untaught Function Also) Independent Mands: (1) Presence of Stimuli, (2) Absence of Stimuli) Echoic-to-Tact (Generalized Reinforcement for at Least Two Tact Echoic-to-Mand (Mand Function of Repeating Word Sounds) Parroting (Speaking Words or Components of Words as Automatic Reinforcement) Auditory Matching (Selection Response to Match Spoken Words) Listener Literacy (Hear-Do, Consonant Vowel Sounds of Others Controls Responding)

Mastered = In Process = Not Present = No Mark

Generalized Imitation Match 2D and 3D Objects Capacity for Sameness Across Senses (Sameness as Abstraction Across Smell, Taste, Touch, Hear)

Conditioned Reinforcement for 3D Objects/Print Stimuli Stimuli on Desktop Conditioned Reinforcement for Voices Conditioned Reinforcement for Faces Teacher Presence Results in Instructional Control Over Child

PYRAMID SUMMARY READER/WRITER CAPABILITIES

Reader/Write r Capabilities

Verbal Development 2

Mastered =

In Process = Not Present = No Mark

Writing Governs Complex Operations of Others (Controls Textually Responding For Complex Operations (Solving Problems is Verbally Mediated, Algorithmic Control) Writer Self-Editing (Writer as Own Reader for Target Audiences) Aesthetic Writing Affects Emotions Technical Writing Precisely Affects Readers Behavior Joint Stimulus Control Across Saying and Writing Textually Responses function as Auditory Conditioned Reinforcer (Listening to Story is Reinforced by Ones Own Speaker Responding) Textual Responding Joins Naming Repertoire

Reading Governs Responding

Dictation (Hear-Write) Print Transcription (See-Write) Responds to Own Textual Responding as Listener (Textually Respond and Hear-Do, or Hear-Name)

Textually Responds 80 Words Per Minute Naming Accrues from Listening to Story Read by Others Responds to Own Textual Responding as Listener Listening to Story Read by Others as Conditioned Reinforcer for Auditory Observing