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Joel E. Ringdahl; Kelly M. Schieltz; Matthew J. O'Brien; Jennifer J. McComas; Rose M. Morlino; Karla A. Zabala-Snow; Emily K. Unholz-Bowden; Shawn N. Girtler – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2025
Researchers have shown that behavioral interventions that incorporate communication as a focus have demonstrated efficacy for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Researchers have demonstrated that individuals with IDD allocate responding to one communicative response modality over others when multiple communicative…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Communication Skills
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Blair P. Lloyd; Gabrielle E. Crowell; Amber M. Reilly; Marney S. Pollack; Johanna L. Staubitz – Beyond Behavior, 2025
Concurrent operant assessments (COAs) offer a flexible model for evaluating instructional preferences for students with persistent, escape-motivated interfering behavior. In this article, we define the critical features of COAs and review what types of questions they can address for classroom educators. We then identify and describe a series of…
Descriptors: Preferences, Intervention, Behavior Problems, Learner Engagement
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Marissa E. Kamlowsky; Claudia L. Dozier; Stacha C. Leslie; Ky C. Kanaman; Sara C. Diaz de Villegas – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2025
We replicated and extended Kanaman et al. (2022) by comparing outcomes of solitary (leisure items only), social (leisure items with social interaction), and combined (leisure items alone and leisure items with social interaction) stimulus preference assessments to determine the extent to which the inclusion of social interaction influenced the…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Interpersonal Relationship, Self Efficacy, Leisure Time
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Mindy C. Scheithauer; Summer B. Bottini; Meara X. H. McMahon – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2025
Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA) is a common strategy for escape-maintained behaviors targeted for reduction (i.e., targeted behavior) exhibited by youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities. DRA often involves various methods of prompting to ensure the instruction or task remains in place until contingencies…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification, Prompting
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Sema Öngören – European Journal of Education, 2025
This study aims to investigate the preschool teachers' perceptions of behaviour and instructional management and their classroom practices with an explanatory sequential design, which is one of the mixed methods research. There were 319 participants in the quantitative stage and 29 participants in the qualitative stage of the research. Research…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Teaching Methods, Behavior Modification
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Cynthia P. Livingston; Jessica P. Tran; Brinea M. Charles; Sara R. Jeglum; Mathew C. Luehring; Patricia F. Kurtz – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2025
Functional communication training is a widely used function-based intervention to replace inappropriate and severe challenging behavior (Tiger et al., 2008). When considering which FCR topography to include in functional communication training, clinicians may consider several factors such as response effort, social significance, and preference.…
Descriptors: Verbal Operant Conditioning, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Child Behavior