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Autism Jargon: Verbal Operants

Published: July 15, 2015, 3:43 p.m.

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Today\\u2019s Jargon is Verbal Operants. \\xa0Verbal Operants are units of language as described by B.F. Skinner in his 1957 book Verbal Behavior. \\xa0Shannon explains why understanding the verbal operants is important to a parent of a child on the Autism Spectrum.

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