Functional Communication Training With a Discriminative Stimulus
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Authors
Lancaster, Blake M.
Issue Date
1997
Type
Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
A series of analyses were conducted to assess and treat aggressive
behavior of a young individual with mental retardation and seizure disorder.
First, an analogue functional analysis (Iwata, Dorsey, Slifer, Bauman & Richman,
1982/1994) revealed inconclusive evidence regarding the maintaining variables
of the client's destructive behavior. Parent reports and naturalistic observations
gave insight as to what conditions elicited Andrea's aggressive behavior.
Second, two modified functional analyses, based on the parent assessment,
were conducted in the social attention and tangible conditions. These analyses
indicated that Andrea's destructive behavior was maintained by access to social
attention and/or tangible items. Third, a functional communication training
treatment intervention was introduced to interrupt the hypothesized response-reinforcer
relationship. This procedure was successful in reducing the
occurrence of aggressive behaviors. Finally, because aggressive behavior
occurred primarily when the individual was denied access to preferred items or
denied social attention, a stimulus control procedure was implemented to
improve the effectiveness of the intervention in these situations.
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