Below is a general skill sequence for helping learners mand with four and five word sentences.
This skill area focuses on developing the ability to mand (request) in full sentences, particularly using four to five-word phrases. It is an extension of foundational manding skills that include requesting locations, people, attention, escape, items, and activities, as well as shorter 2-3 word manding phrases. As learners become proficient in this more complex form of manding, it's crucial to continue teaching simpler mands from each component skill area concurrently. This approach not only enhances the learners' vocabulary but also prepares them for more specific, compound mands that articulate their wants and needs more precisely. Concurrent training in both simple and compound mands helps learners become more adept and flexible in communicating their needs and desires.
Treatment Plan Goal Ideas
This is a list of treatment plan goals. These are different from the goals you will find in the skill sequence below. Your treatment plan goals encompass any number of goals from the skill sequence. Sometime they will include multiple goals from the sequence (”Learner will label 5 toys”) and sometimes the treatment plan goal will be simply consist of a really important goal from the skill sequence (”Will label caregiver”). An analogy I like to use goes as follows: Each skill sequence goal (commonly known as a “target”) represent each stair in a flight of stairs. The treatment plan goal is the flight itself.
Treatment plan goal ideas for this particular skill area are as follows:
- Learner will mand for preferred people, items, activities, and locations with at least four words.
- Learner will mand for preferred people, items, activities, and locations with at least five words.
Component Skills
Your learner may need to be fluent in these component skills first before introducing this goal/skill area. Component skills for this skill sequence may include skill areas that are fundamental to other areas. Fluency in the skill areas listed below may increase the likelihood that your learner will succeed in this skill sequence and those afterward.
Intro to Manding
Manding for Actions 
Manding for Attention
Mands for Escape
Manding for Locations
Mands for Missing Items
2-3 Word Mands Skill Possibilities
Below is a possible skill sequence for working on increasing your learner’s ability to mand. Note that every learner is different and that you likely will need to tweak and vary some programming to their needs. Click the triangle icon to view the full description for each skill in the sequence/area.
Concurrent Skills
Working on these skills at the same time could help with goal mastery. Maybe your learner has mastered these skills already. Perhaps they are already listed as component skills above. That’s okay! Targeting other learning channels might help your learner.
Intro to MandingManding for Actions Manding for AttentionMands for EscapeManding for LocationsMands for Missing Items2-3 Word Mands 
Manding with “Where”Composite Skills
These are the possible next steps for learners who have mastered, or are mastering, the skills listed above. Note that new skill areas may require fluency in other component skills not listed above. Also, you can introduce composite skill sequences prematurely to keep your learner progressing, as generativity may occur earlier than expected.
Compound MandingFollow the link below to better understand component-composite analysis.
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