Full Description
Children and adolescents with moderate and severe disabilities often have communication challenges that lead them to use problem behavior to convey their desires. This is the most comprehensive contemporary volume on functional communication training (FCT)--the individualized instructional approach that teaches a child socially acceptable communicative alternatives to aggression, tantrums, self-injury, and other unconventional behaviors. The expert authors provide accessible, empirically based guidelines for implementing FCT, and tips for overcoming obstacles. Grounded in the principles of applied behavior analysis, the book includes detailed strategies for developing a support plan, together with illustrative case examples.
Contents
1. Introduction to Functional Communication Training
2. The Selection of Communicative Function(s) to Teach and How They Are Expressed
3. An Integrative Model to Establish Communicative Alternatives and Enhance Self-Regulatory Skills
4. Examples of Antecedent-Focused Intervention Strategies
5. Teaching Communicative Protesting as an Alternative to Avoidance-Maintained Problem Behavior, with Quannah Parker-McGowan and Jeff Sigafoos
6. Teaching Requesting Assistance
7. Requesting a Break
8. Teaching Communicative Requests as an Alternative to Problem Behavior Maintained by Attention
9. Teaching Communicative Requests as an Alternative to Problem Behavior Maintained by Tangibles
10. Describing Functional Communication Training as a Component of an Effective Behavior Support Plan: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know
Glossary
References
Index
