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#1. You are working with a child who is diagnosed as both non-verbal (meaning they do not typically use spoken language for communication) and non-vocal (meaning they produce no sounds from their mouth). Your goal is to teach this child to say the word ‘Mom’. Given the child’s current communication profile, what would be the absolute first step in initiating a shaping procedure to teach this vocal skill?

Prompt the child to imitate the word ‘Mom’ and reinforce any close vocal approximation.

Implement a mand training program for ‘Mom’ using a picture card as a visual prompt.

Provide immediate reinforcement for any spontaneous vocal sound the child emits.

Begin with echoic training by modeling ‘Mom’ and using physical prompts to shape the child’s mouth movements.

The text specifies that the child is nonvocal meaning they do not produce any sounds When utilizing a shaping procedure to teach a new skill especially a vocal one from a baseline of no vocalizations the initial step is to reinforce the closest approximation of the target behavior that the individual currently exhibits In this scenario since the child produces no sounds the very first step in shaping vocalizations would be to capture and reinforce any unprompted spontaneous vocal sound however rudimentary This establishes the foundational behavior upon which more refined vocalizations can be gradually shaped towards the target word Mom Prompting imitation or using physical prompts for a child who is nonvocal would likely be ineffective as a first step as the child needs to first produce sounds naturally Mand training using pictures while important for verbal behavior doesnt address the primary goal of producing vocal sounds themselves

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