Evaluating competing activities to enhance functional communication training during reinforcement schedule thinning
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Reinforcement schedule thinning following treatment with functional communication training.
We evaluated four methods for increasing the practicality of functional communication training (FCT) by decreasing the frequency of reinforcement for alternative behavior. Three participants whose problem behaviors were maintained by positive reinforcement were treated successfully with FCT in which reinforcement for alternative behavior was initially delivered on fixed-ratio (FR) 1 schedules. ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0021-8855
DOI: 10.1002/jaba.486