My Student Cannot Wait! Teaching Tolerance Following Functional Communication Training. (August 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Muharib, Reem; Pennington, Robert C.
• Is Part Of: Beyond behavior. Volume 28:Number 2(2019)
• Page Start: 99
• Page End: 107
• Publication Date: 2019-08
• Subjects: functional communication training -- challenging behavior -- tolerance procedures; Problem children -- Education -- United States -- Periodicals; Behavior disorders in children -- Periodicals; Behavior disorders in children; Problem children -- Education; United States; Electronic journals; Periodicals; 371.93
• DOI: 10.1177/1074295619852106
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1074-2956

Abstract

Functional communication training (FCT) involves the reinforcement of an appropriate communicative response as an alternative to challenging behavior. The intervention has been identified as an evidence-based practice across multiple populations. Despite its extensive research support, FCT may be impractical in some educational settings because it often requires educators to reinforce alternative responses at high rates. In this discussion article, we describe three procedures (delay to reinforcement, chained schedules of reinforcement, and multiple schedules of reinforcement) that can be used following FCT in educational settings to teach students who exhibit challenging behaviors to tolerate waiting for a reinforcer.