S5E6: A Practitioner’s Guide for Selecting Functional Communication Responses Elizabeth (Bethjoy) Houck and Joseph Dracobly

Elizabeth Houck and Joseph Dracobly join us to talk about their paper, A Practitioner’s Guide for Selecting Functional Communication Responses

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