Discriminated Functional Communication for Attention: Evaluating Fixed and Varied Durations of Reinforcer Availability

Kaitlin E. Balka; Nicole L. Hausman; Erin Schaller; Sungwoo Kahng

doi:10.1002/bin.1440

Discriminated Functional Communication for Attention: Evaluating Fixed and Varied Durations of Reinforcer Availability

Kaitlin E. Balka, Nicole L. Hausman, Erin Schaller, Sungwoo Kahng

Kennedy Krieger Institute

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Discriminated functional communication (DFC) training has been used to teach children to attend to naturally occurring discriminative stimuli when manding for attention. In this study, the participant was taught to only mand for attention during experimenter non-busy periods. The participant could only discriminate busy and non-busy activities during more naturalistic varied reinforcer availability periods following prior exposure to a fixed duration of availability. These data suggest that DFC may first have to be taught under more predictable conditions prior to transitioning to more naturalistic conditions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	210-218
Number of pages	9
Journal	Behavioral Interventions
Volume	31
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.1440
State	Published - Apr 1 2016

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