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O'Brien, Matthew J.; Schieltz, Kelly M.; Berg, Wendy K.; McComas, Jennifer J.; Wacker, David P. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2021
In this article, we provide a case example of how telehealth can be used by care providers in their homes to access empirically validated procedures such as functional communication training. As shown in the case example, complex assessment and intervention procedures were implemented successfully by care providers in their homes while receiving…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Child Health, Access to Health Care
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Schieltz, Kelly M.; Wacker, David P.; Romani, Patrick W. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2017
We evaluated the effects of providing positive reinforcement for task completion, signaled via the presence of a tangible item, on escape-maintained problem behavior displayed by three typically developing children during one-time 90-min outpatient evaluations. Brief functional analyses of problem behavior, conducted within a multielement design,…
Descriptors: Positive Reinforcement, Assignments, Program Effectiveness, Behavior Problems
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Schieltz, Kelly M.; Romani, Patrick W.; Wacker, David P.; Suess, Alyssa N.; Huang, Pei; Berg, Wendy K.; Lindgren, Scott D.; Kopelman, Todd G. – Remedial and Special Education, 2018
Functional communication training (FCT) is a widely used and effective function-based treatment for problem behavior. The purpose of this article is to present two cases in which FCT was unsuccessful in reducing the occurrence of problem behavior displayed by two young children with an autism spectrum disorder. Both children received the same…
Descriptors: Training, Communication Skills, Behavior Problems, Young Children