September 30, 2024

S7E4: Updated Recommendations for Reinforcement Schedule Thinning Following Functional Communication Training with Michael Kranak & Katherine Brown

1 hour 14 minutes

Michael Kranak & Katherine Brown join us to talk about their paper, Updated Recommendations for Reinforcement Schedule Thinning Following Functional Communication Training

Show Notes

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Acknowledgments

Host and Executive Producer: Cody Morris, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LBA

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Assistant Producers

Megan Ellsworth

Jesse Perrin

Organizational Support

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Behavior Analysis in Practice

Editor, Stephanie Peterson, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LBA

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Music

Cruising Altitude by Jim Carr and his band New Latitude

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Link to Article:

Updated Recommendations for Reinforcement Schedule Thinning following Functional Communication Training | Behavior Analysis in Practice (springer.com)

References

Brown, K. R., Gaynor, R. N., Randall, K. R., & Zangrillo, A. N. (2022). A comparative analysis of procedures to teach delay tolerance. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, 22(2), 195–211. https://doi.org/10.1037/bar0000224

Brown, K. R., Hurd, A., Randall, K. R., Szabo, T., & Mitteer, D. (2022). A family-centered care approach to behavior-analytic assessment and intervention. Behavior Analysis in Practice. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-022-00756-y

Brown, K. R., & Nercesian, S. J. (2024). Discriminative stimuli promote the efficacy of delay tolerance training. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, 24(2), 66–83. https://doi.org/10.1037/bar0000286

Greer, B. D., Fisher, W. W., Briggs, A. M., Lichtblau, K. R., Phillips, L. A., & Mitteer, D. R. (2019). Using schedule-correlated stimuli during functional communication training to promote the rapid transfer of treatment effects. Behavioral Development, 24(2), 110–119. https://doi.org/10.1037/bdb0000085

Hagopian, L. P., Boelter, E. W., & Jarmolowicz, D. P. (2011). Reinforcement schedule thinning following functional communication training: Review and recommendations. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 4(1), 4–16. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03391770

Kranak, M. P., & Falligant, J. M. (2021). Analysis of terminal schedule probes and schedule thinning effects following functional communication training. Behavioral Interventions, 37(3), 323-333. https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.1842

Mitteer, D. R., Boyle, M. A., & Craig, A. R. (2024). Reinforcement-schedule thinning practices during functional communication training: A survey of behavior analysts. Behavioral Interventions, 39(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.2002

Pizarro, E. M., Vollmer, T. R., & Morris, S. L. (2021). Evaluating skills correlated with discriminated responding in multiple schedule arrangements. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 54(1), 334–345. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.759

Strohmeier, C. W., Cengher, M., Chin, M. D., & Falligant, J. M. (2024). Application of a terminal schedule probe method to inform schedule thinning with multiple schedules. Journal of applied behavior analysis, 57(3), 676–694. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.1081

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