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Case Reports
. 1995 Fall;28(3):261-8.
doi: 10.1901/jaba.1995.28-261.

Reducing escape behavior and increasing task completion with functional communication training, extinction, and response chaining

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Reducing escape behavior and increasing task completion with functional communication training, extinction, and response chaining

J S Lalli et al. J Appl Behav Anal. 1995 Fall.

Abstract

The effects of functional communication training, extinction, and response chaining on 3 subjects' escape-maintained aberrant behavior were evaluated using a multielement design. Functional communication training consisted of teaching subjects a verbal response that was functionally equivalent to their aberrant behavior. Subjects initially were allowed to escape from a task contingent on the trained verbal response. In subsequent treatment phases, escape was contingent on the trained verbal response plus the completion of the specified number of steps in the task (response chaining). The number of steps was increased until a subject completed the task to obtain a break. Results showed that the treatment reduced rates of aberrant behavior and that the chaining procedure was effective in decreasing the availability of escape.

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