Teaching a child to repeat an instruction can be very helpful for learners when they need to follow multistep directions or when a task must be performed after some delay. In ABA, this is called Joint Control. A learner might be able to go to a location and retrieve a single item with no problem, but when you ask them to go to different places and gather multiple items, they may forget some of what you asked for because the information is no longer active in their mind. For example, if you say t