Contributions of Behavior Analysis to Reading and Writing Com... - 9783031408700

Contributions of Behavior Analysis to Reading and Writing ComprehensionAuthor(s): Alessandra Rocha de Albuquerque, Raquel Maria de Melo\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer International Publishing AG\nISBN-13: 9783031408700, 978-3031408700\nSynopsis\nThis book shows how behavior analysis can be applied to teaching reading and writing to primary school students and to special populations, such as children with intellectual and hearing disabilities and illiterate adults. Originally published in Portuguese, this contributed volume is now translated into English and presents for the first time to international researchers and students a comprehensive overview of a research program developed for more than three decades in Brazil which gave birth to a unique teaching program based on the concept of stimulus equivalence: the Learning to Read and Write in Small Steps. \n\nThe book is divided into four parts. The first part prese.