Below is a general skill sequence for helping learners mand for what they want while specifying additional conditions.
Taking manding beyond mere people, places, and things allows learners to specify the conditions in which they'd like activities to occur. This approach may be terrific for promoting language development. By enabling learners to highlight their preferences more specifically, it could pave the way for more meaningful conversations. However, it's important to note that fluency in manding for escape, as well as for people, places, and things, is likely a necessary foundation.
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 a preferred item or activity and the preferred location, people, and/or additional necessary items across one preferred item or activity.
- Learner will mand for a preferred item or activity and the preferred location, people, and/or additional necessary items across ten preferred items or activities.
- Learner will mand for a preferred item or activity and the preferred location, people, and/or additional necessary items across 25 preferred items or activities.
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 
4-5 Word Mands Skill Possibilities
Below is a possible skill sequence for working on increasing your learner’s ability to engage in compound mands. 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.
Manding for LocationsMands for Missing ItemsMands for Escape
Labels Alone/with Others
Labels Familiar Locations 
Manding with “What”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.
Manding with Prepositions
Follow the link below to better understand component-composite analysis.
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