The use of conditioned motivating operations (CMOs) in mand training for children with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review

The Use of a Behavior Chain Interruption Strategy to Teach Mands for Help with an Adult with Intellectual Disability and Deaf-Blindness

“…The BCIS typically involves prearranging a disruption during a specific step of a previously mastered routine to contrive an establishing operation (EO) for manding. Mands can include requests for missing items (e.g., “Can I have the [item]?”), information (e.g., “Where is it?”), or non-specific mands such as help (e.g., “Help me,” Ban & McGill, 2023 ; Carnett et al, 2017 ). Interrupting a step in the chain can be conceptualized as using transitive conditioned motivating operations (CMO-T) to increase (or decrease) the value of another stimulus in the environment and increase (or decrease) behavior.…”