Verbal Behavior Resources:  Mand

This page provides resources to support the implementation of Mand (requesting) training for students with autism or other complex needs who present limited or absent mand repertoires. These resources will cover conceptual skills, protocols, and methods to teach early social interaction necessary to establish basic skill sets for such students.

***We would like to give special thanks to PaTTAN.net, Mike Miklos, and Amiris DiPuglia for permitting us to share these materials with Educators in Kansas.

Getting Started

• Determining a Response Form
• Identifying Mands to Teach
• Mand Examples
• Mand Chart
• Mand Cue
• Mand Sequence Chart

Mand Training Guidelines and Procedures

• Mand Training Guidelines
• Mand Procedures
• Mand: Fidelity Checklist
• Basic Mand Training Protocol
• Within Trial Transfer Procedure
• Within Trial Transfer Procedural Checklist
• Within Trial Transfer Procedural Checklist for Picture Exchange and SGD
• Second Trial Transfer Procedure
• Second Trial Transfer Procedural Checklist
• Second Trial Transfer Procedural Checklist for Picture Exchange and SGD
• Error Correction Procedural Checklist

Mand Error Correction

• Defective Mand
• Sign Mand Correction

Mand Data Collection

• Current Mand List (skills tracking sheet)
• Full Page Mand Cold Probe Data
• Intensive Teaching (IT) and Mand Data Sheet
• Mand Probe and Rate Data Sheet
• Directions for Filling out the Manding Probe and Rate Data Sheet