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Practitioner-Implemented Functional Communication Training: A Review of the Literature
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Andzik, Natalie R.; Cannella-Malone, Helen I.; Sigafoos, Jeff – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2016
Although functional communication training (FCT) is an effective intervention for increasing appropriate forms of communicative behaviors and decreasing inappropriate forms of communication (i.e., challenging behavior) in students with disabilities, its effectiveness might depend to some extent on the expertise of the interventionist. The purpose…
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, Communication Skills, Intervention, Intellectual Disability
Examination of an Antecedent Communication Intervention to Reduce Tangibly Maintained Challenging Behavior: A Controlled Analog Analysis
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O'Reilly, Mark; Fragale, Christina; Gainey, Summer; Kang, Soyeon; Koch, Heather; Shubert, Jennifer; El Zein, Farah; Longino, Deanna; Chung, Moon; Xu, Ziwei; White, Pamela; Lang, Russell; Davis, Tonya; Rispoli, Mandy; Lancioni, Giulio; Didden, Robert; Healy, Olive; Kagohara, Deborah; van der Meer, Larah; Sigafoos, Jeff – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
We examined the influence of an antecedent communication intervention on challenging behavior for three students with developmental disorders. Students were taught to request tangible items that were identified as reinforcers for challenging behavior in a prior functional analysis. Individual participant multielement and reversal designs were used…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Intervention, Behavior Modification, Disabilities
Effects of Motivating Operations on Problem and Academic Behavior in Classrooms
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Rispoli, Mandy; O'Reilly, Mark; Lang, Russell; Machalicek, Wendy; Davis, Tonya; Lancioni, Giulio; Sigafoos, Jeff – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011
The current study examined the effects of motivating operations on problem behavior and academic engagement for 2 students with autism. Classroom sessions were preceded by periods in which the participants had access or no access to the items functionally related to their problem behavior. Results suggested that presession access may result in…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Autism, Reinforcement, Intervention
A Systematic Examination of Different Parameters of Presession Exposure to Tangible Stimuli that Maintain Problem Behavior
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O'Reilly, Mark; Lang, Russell; Davis, Tonya; Rispoli, Mandy; Machalicek, Wendy; Sigafoos, Jeff; Lancioni, Giulio; Didden, Robert – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2009
We examined the effects of three different presession conditions on tangibly maintained problem behavior for 2 students with autism, using individual-participant multielement designs. First, an analogue functional analysis demonstrated that problem behavior was maintained by access to tangible items. Next, topographies of item rejection were…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Autism, Functional Behavioral Assessment, College Students