Social Questions
Started:
7/10/99
Ended
10/29/99
Why? Well,
because children are constantly asked social questions by
strangers. Also, what if your child is lost? What if they can’t even tell the
police their name or their phone number?
It also leads the way for programs like statement-statement which is
often a way that young children 2-4 communicate (My moms name is Cindy.
Well, my moms name is sallie!)
Directions: Teach Lukas to respond to common social
questions such as “what’s your name?”
He should respond with a full sentence.
We can relax this later as his language improves. Teach him at least 25-30 questions. Once
they are mastered, generalize it. For instance, word it in a different way:
Whats
your name? How are you called? Whats your first name? Do you have a name? Who are you?
Once
you have 25-30 questions, start
statement-statement.
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Target |
Introduced |
Mastered |
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1.
Whats your name? |
7-10-99 |
08-05-99 |
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2.
How old are you? |
7-17-99 |
8-5-99 |
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3.Where
do you live? |
7-17-99 |
8-5-99 |
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4.
what colour is your hair? |
7-17-99 |
8-7-99 |
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5.
who is your mom? |
7/22/99 |
8/7/99 |
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6.
Who is your dad? |
7/22/99 |
8/7/99 |
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7.
What colour are your eyes? |
7/22/99 |
8/7/99 |
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8.
Who is your sister? |
7/22/99 |
8/22/99 |
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9.
Who is your brothter? |
7/22/99 |
8/28/99 |
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10.
How are you doing? |
9/06/99 |
9/15/99 |
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11.
Whats your dad’s job? |
8/22/99 |
8/29/99 |
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12.
whats your favourite colour? |
10/10/99 |
10/20/99 |
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13.
Whats your phone number? |
7/27/99 |
8/17/99 |
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14.
What street do you live on? |
7/27/99 |
8/9/99 |
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15.
When is your birthday? |
7/27/99 |
8/17/99 |
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16.
What is your last name? |
8/8/99 |
8/18/99 |
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17.
What colour is your moms hair? |
8/12/99 |
Known |
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18.
What colour is your dad’s hair? |
8/12/99 |
Known |
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19.
What is your middle name? |
8/13/99 |
8/18/99 |
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20.
What is your full name? |
8/13/99 |
8/22/99 |
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21.
where does your opa and oma live? |
8/13/99 |
8/23/99 |
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22.
What is your mom’s last name? |
8/25/99 |
9/5/99 |
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23.
What is your address? |
9/11/99 |
9/14/99 |
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24.
Where were you born? |
9/14/99 |
9/30/99 |
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25.
How old is your mom? |
9/21/99 |
9/30/99 |
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26.
How old is your dad? |
10/03/99 |
10/10/99 |
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27.
How old is your brother? |
10/03/99 |
10/10/99 |
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27A.
How old is your sister? |
10/03/99 |
10/10/99 |
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28
What is your favourite food? |
10/14/99 |
10/18/99 |
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29.
What is your favourite toy? |
10/14/99 |
10/18/99 |
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30.
What is your favourite book? |
10/14/99 |
10/18/99 |
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31.
Where do you go to school? |
10-21-99 |
10-27-99 |
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32.
How many brothers do you have? |
10/21/99 |
10/26/99 |
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33.
How many sisters do you have? |
10/21/99 |
10/26/99 |
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34.
Who do you play with?. |
10/21/99 |
11/01/99 |
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35.
Do you have any pets? |
10/21/99 |
10/26/99 |
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36.
whats your favoroute TV show? |
10/21/99 |
10/26/99 |
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37.
What do you do at school? |
10-26-99 |
10-29-99 |
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Other
questions and ways to ask:
(I
got lazy here and just cut and pasted off of Melinda Smith’s Website on
Playskills but as I already stated, you do need to vary how you say it once the
child learns it. Also, back off full
sentence responses once the child knows…)
The data books noted
Looking through the data pages, I saw that we usually just full verbal prompted him on novel questions. He had full sentence issues. I am still unsure if we should have ALWAYS forced him to say sentences versus just answering. I saw that I went right into random rotation with Lukas and that on our third session, I just hit them while playing legos on the floor versus being ONLY at the table. The was noted because after targets were mastered, they were to go into the generalization log. Contrary to all the rumours out there, not all drill work is done only at the table. IT is convenient if you have a highly distractable child and one who has compliance issues but Lukas was neither so we could do this.
8/4/99: The tutor noted that she targeted 14/5/6/2/3 and that he missed the switch on it. In other words: whats your name? Lukas. That’s right.
Whats your name? Lukas. That rights.
Whats your name? Lukas. That’s right.
How old are you? Lukas. No.
She was asking target 5, 5 times in a row before switching to target 6. When she first attempted target 6, he gave the answer for target 5. This will tell you one of two things. He either doesn’t really know what he is saying and is just parroting your full verbal prompt or he wasn’t listening and was waiting to get out the chair. J The next tutors intermixed mastered items more to see if it was an actual intermixing issue or if he just wasn’t paying attention (poor reinforcement perhaps?)
On 8/6/99, the tutor noted that she asked “what is your favourite colour?” and he responded “I have green eyes.” This tells me one of two things… Lukas “knew the drill” and was just giving out an answer OR he had WH discrim issues and was just picking out a key word “colour” and coming up with an answer he thought would match. I tend to lean towards wh discrim issues because it would become apparent a year later, that we needed to rework our WH discrim program.
8/11/99: He was messing with the tutor. She had this down: target 13 #correct over
number of trials: 3/30 under remarks: he knows this. He wouldn’t
stop whispering the answering. This tells me reinforcement issues were at play and that
Lukas was getting her goat. J
Language wise, we had to correct his full sentences because he often left out words like “is” “in”.