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Functional Communication Training

ABC Data Sheet

Key Requirements of FCT

Overview of FCT

  • Informal Observations
  • Identify the interfering behavior
  • ABC CHART, Functional behavioral Assessment, Ratio Scale
  • Identify replacement behavior
  • Plan opportunities for generalizations
  • Materials based on the replacement behavior

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Behavioral
  • Clinician Directed
  • Qualitative

Advantages

  • Extensive data collection and research studies
  • Measures can be easily taught to parents and teachers
  • Effective with any age group and any diagnosis

Disadvantages

  • Only single subject studies have been conducted
  • Certain situations that can be manipulated may be unethical

Materials, Prompting, and Reinforcement Strategies

Function Communication Training Flow Chart

Work Removed

Kicking and Screaming

Math Work

Presented

Video Sample

ANTECEDENT

CONSEQUENCES

BEHAVIOR

Video demonstrates how to teach appropriate behavior

Sample Treatment of FCT

Escape

frustration

Sign

"help"

FUNCTION

GOAL

FCT Treatment

Sarah: Client

Kim: Teacher

Roxanne: Clinician

Kiarn: Narrator

Materials, Prompting and Reinforcement continued

National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders the FCT program has been through multiple trials to test efficacy.

  • Prompts: partial verbal, full verbal or phonemic verbal cue, gestural (model), partial physical prompt, full physical prompt
  • positive social reinforcement
  • Materials:
  • case by case
  • one-on-one therapy
  • hand over hand assistance
  • marking progress using ABC Chart
  • Time is important, give processing time and be patient

FCT meets the evidence-based practice criteria with five single-subject design studies, demonstrating its effectiveness for promoting appropriate behavior and communication skills for children at the preschool and elementary school levels.

McCauley states that over 200 published studies document the successful use of FCT

All treatments when through a rigorous intervention in 2007 deciding if the practices were still updated with the needs of a child with ASD.

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