Verbal Behavior: documents and current research

This page began in 2009 as a collection of documents about Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior and its application to language teaching. It has now been reviewed and reduced to sources that are still available and useful.

Links reviewed on 29 August 2026. This is a reading list, not individualized clinical guidance.

Foundational and current sources

• B. F. Skinner, Verbal Behavior — the official extended-edition page from the B. F. Skinner Foundation.
• The Analysis of Verbal Behavior — the current journal devoted to conceptual and empirical work in this area.
• Empirical Application of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior to Interventions for Children with Autism: A Review — a systematic review of studies published from 2001 to 2017.
• Behavioral Language Interventions for Children with Autism — a comparison of applied verbal behavior and naturalistic teaching approaches.
• Intraverbal Behavior and Verbal Conditional Discriminations — an open-access article by Mark L. Sundberg and Cindy A. Sundberg.

Historical documents preserved by Autismo ABA

These files formed part of the original collection and remain available here for historical and educational reference:

• Verbal Behavior Glossary — Mark L. Sundberg.
• Verbal Behavior: A Behavioral Approach to Language Instruction.
• Learning Channels and Verbal Behavior.
• The Benefits of Skinner’s Analysis of Verbal Behavior for Children with Autism — Sundberg and Michael.

The obsolete conference links, unrelated pages and documents that no longer had a recoverable or authoritative destination have been removed.