As students become more proficient at manding and move to an intermediate requesting phase, their mean length of utterance should increase. The types of mands they use should also expand. Intermediate learners are those who can use phrases of three or more words. When a student moves into a more intermediate phase, we often focus on pre-academic skills and forget to expand their manding repertoire. These learners have a decent receptive vocabulary, but still get stuck on certain aspects of language. They still need help with manding to bring more variety into their requests.

Here, we dive into the kinds of skills we should be teaching at the intermediate level for requesting. We cover how to figure out what a student’s manding needs are and whether to expand their main length of utterance or their repertoire. We talk about requesting for action, why it’s helpful to stay away from words like “please” and “thank you”, and requesting for assistance. We also discuss how to teach self-advocacy through appropriate protests and requests for attention.

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What’s Inside:

• Which skills to teach at the intermediate level for requesting.
• How to discover what a student’s manding needs are.
• How to teach requests for action, assistance, and appropriate protests.

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