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Following instruction, unreinforced probe performance on untaught CI relations increased above pre-instruction levels for all participants, with seven achieving mastery on these convergent tasks. Maintenance probes conducted at 2 and 4 weeks post-instruction demonstrated sustained responding for the majority of participants, though marked individual variability\u2014including notable performance decays in story recall for two participants\u2014was observed. Because a formal component analysis was not conducted, the specific contribution of vocal rehearsal cannot be isolated from the overall package, and theoretical mechanisms such as joint control serve only as a cautious, tentative conceptual account. While limited by CI\u2019s functional problem-solving evidence being tempered by its measurement format within the staggered concurrent arrangement, the absence of component isolation, and direct classroom generalization probes, these preliminary findings suggest that package utilizing strictly auditory\u2013vocal arrangements demonstrates initial feasibility for establishing complex intraverbal forward chains under controlled 1:1 clinical conditions. 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