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Winborn-Kemmerer, Lisa; Wacker, David P.; Harding, Jay; Boelter, Eric; Berg, Wendy; Lee, John – Education and Treatment of Children, 2010
We conducted a three-phase study to evaluate the use of mands and the occurrence of problem behavior for 2 children with developmental disabilities. During Phase 1, a functional analysis identified the variables maintaining problem behavior. During Phase 2, functional communication training was implemented within a concurrent schedules design. The…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Topography, Developmental Disabilities, Functional Behavioral Assessment
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Coggins, Truman E.; Timler, Geralyn R.; Olswang, Lesley B. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2007
Purpose: This article is a retrospective examination of environmental risk, language performance, and narrative discourse data from a clinical database of school-age children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Method: A case-defined diagnostic approach for measuring and reporting the full spectrum of disabilities in children with…
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Prenatal Influences, Environmental Influences
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Shukla-Mehta, Smita; Albin, Richard W. – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2005
The purpose of this study was to utilize the matching theory to understand intra-response class covariation as a result of extinction for selected members of the response class versus functional communication training. The participant was a 9-year old girl with a severe disability and problem behaviors. Experimental procedures included functional…
Descriptors: Severe Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems
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Peterson, Stephanie M. Peck; Caniglia, Cyndi; Royster, Amy Jo; Macfarlane, Emily; Plowman, Kristen; Baird, Sally Jo; Wu, Nadia – Educational Psychology, 2005
This study evaluated the effects of choice making within functional communication training (FCT) to increase the task engagement of two participants with inappropriate behaviour. Pretreatment functional analyses indicated that both participants' inappropriate behaviour was maintained by escape. For one of the participants, inappropriate behaviour…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Functional Behavioral Assessment