Sundberg and Michael (2011) reviewed the contributions of Skinner's (1957) Verbal
Behavior to the treatment of language delays in children with autism spectrum disorder …

Two principal goals of functional communication training (FCT) are (a) to eliminate
destructive behavior and (b) to establish a more acceptable, yet functionally equivalent …

Research Methods in Applied Behavior Analysis, 2nd edition, is a practical text that provides
the beginning researcher with a clear description of how behavior analysts conduct applied …

Functional communication training is a well‐established treatment for socially reinforced
destructive behavior that typically includes differential reinforcement of the functional …

Schedule thinning is a necessary treatment procedure following the acquisition of a
communication response during functional communication training. In this article, we update …

The current study examined resurgence of problem behavior during thinning of multiple
schedules of reinforcement following functional communication training replicating previous …

Results of several recent translational studies have suggested that correlating contextual or
discriminative stimuli with the delivery and withholding of reinforcement for the functional …

This study evaluated the extent to which a conjugate reinforcement schedule (CONJ)
involving a contingency between pedaling a stationary bike and viewing a preferred movie …

Concepts from behavioral momentum theory, along with some empirical findings, suggest
that the rate of baseline reinforcement may contribute to the relapse of severe destructive …

Prior research has shown that bringing functional communication responses under the
discriminative control of schedule-correlated stimuli facilitates rapid reinforcement schedule …