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1. Failure to assess and/or treat across people, settings, or contexts. 2. Failure to account for increased difficulty and multiple variables inherent in real-life situations (that is, complex social matrix; Glosser et a!., 1988). 3. Narrow · definition of progress: a. Terminating treatment based on results of standard tests. b. Terminating treatment when responses are acquired, rather than when they are used in appropriate situations (generalized). 4. Overestimating functional communication based on responses to artificial treatment tasks; Failure to view communication as a whole by adopting a discrete point approach to language analysis (Damico, 1988). 5. Failure to account for naturally occurring contingencies. 6. Failure to determine social validity of goals/treatment targets. 7. Failure to account for setting events. 8. Failure to look for side effects of treatment.