Episode 185 - Teaching Personal Pronouns
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
If I'm talking to you and you ask me to give you something from me, I know just what to do. But would an autistic child? This week we explore the challenges with personal pronouns, some possible treatment options, and whether or not mixing up your "I's" and "you's" really matters.
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Articles discussed this episode:
Morgenstern, B.D., Causin, K.G., & Weinlein, J.L. (2019). Behavioral Interventions, 34, 525-533. doi: 10.1002/bin.1685
Hendler, M., Weisberg, P., O'Dell, N. (1988). Developing the receptive and productive use of pronouns in an autistic child: Use of modeling and programming for generalization. Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 9, 17-34. doi: 10.1300/J019v90n03_02
Hartley, C., Harrison, N. & Shaw, J.J. (2021). Does autism affect children's identification of ownership and defence of ownership rights? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51, 4227-4238. doi: 10.1007/s10803-021-04872-6
Zane, E., Arunachalam, S., & Luyster, R. (2021). Personal pronouns errors in form versus meaning produced by children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science. doi: 10.1007/s41809-021-00087-4
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer. |
| 0:20.6 | Hi, I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, with my, I would say fabulous co-host, but they're |
| 0:24.1 | making fun of my introduction. |
| 0:25.7 | So my fine co-host that I guess happened to be here with me. |
| 0:30.4 | Hey, Rob, it's Diana. |
| 0:32.8 | And it's Jackie. |
| 0:33.6 | And what I was doing is pretending I was you, not as in a making fun, but as a jovial. |
| 0:40.1 | So this isn't a video podcast. It's a podcast about behavior analysis and behavior analytic |
| 0:44.0 | research in which every week we pick a topic and find some relevant research articles. |
| 0:47.9 | But if it were a video version of all that stuff I just said, you would have noticed that |
| 0:51.4 | my hey, everybody was a little more head bobby than usual, |
| 0:54.5 | and we had everybody on the side, sort of moving the head side to side, making fun. |
| 0:59.9 | No, I just want to be you. Just jokes. I want to be in your face. In my face? Yep. In my face. |
| 1:07.7 | My want to be in your face. Wait, what? What? |
| 1:11.6 | Pronouns are hard. |
| 1:12.6 | Pronouns are hard, which is why we are talking all about teaching personal pronouns |
| 1:18.6 | tonight. |
| 1:19.6 | So, Diana, this was an episode that you really wanted to talk about, and I think we had |
| 1:24.6 | some discussion at first about what kind of pronouns we were talking about. Was this more, you know, the idea of just basic use of pronouns? Was this understanding of pronouns? |
| 1:33.4 | Was it more about teaching people to accept pronouns based on identity? You know, there were a lot of |
| 1:39.7 | ways we could have gone. So what exactly are we talking about tonight? For our listeners, I know what it is, |
| 1:45.7 | because I have to talk about it. Surprise. You did not prepare? Yeah, we came into this conversation |
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