Functional communication training is a behavior-analytic intervention that first identifies what a problem behavior achieves, such as attention or escape from difficult tasks. It then teaches and reinforces an appropriate communicative response that obtains the same outcome, making the problem behavior unnecessary.
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Editorial orientation · Family
Tool
In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.
Editorial orientation · Category
Intervention Methods & Practices
Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.