A week or two ago someone asked for information on the work of J. W.
Partington with autistic children. I did find one 1994 article by him in
the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. The reference and abstract are
copied below. I can fax or snail mail a copy of the full article to anyone
that would like to evaluate this report in more detail.

Dan Harvey

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Partington, JW; Sundberg, ML; Newhouse, L; Spengler, SM. Overcoming an
autistic child's failure to acquire a tact repertoire. Journal of Applied
Behavior Analysis, 1994 Winter, 27(4):733-4. (UI: 95146447) Language:
English; Pub type: JOURNAL ARTICLE

Abstract: A 6-year-old nonvocal autistic girl who had acquired over 30
signs as mands (requests), simple intraverbals (English-sign translations),
and imitative responses repeatedly failed to acquire a tact (labeling)
repertoire. It was speculated that the verbal stimulus "What is that?"
blocked the establishment of stimulus control by nonverbal stimuli. When
procedures to transfer stimulus control from verbal to nonverbal stimuli
were implemented, the subject quickly learned to tact all 18 target stimuli.

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Dan Harvey
Father of Matthew (3, AS), Jay (7) and Michelle (9)
Vice-President, ASF
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