A Practitioner's Guide for Selecting Functional Communication Responses

Houck, E. J., Dracobly, J. D., & Baak, S. A. (2022). A Practitioner's Guide for Selecting Functional Communication Responses. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 16(1), 65–75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-022-00705-9

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Functional communication training (FCT) is an effective and widely used procedure to reduce problem behaviors. The purpose of FCT is to replace a problem behavior with a socially appropriate and communicative behavior - the functional communication response (FCR), which produces the same reinforcer as the problem behavior. Recent reviews of FCT have focused on providing overall recommendations for how the procedure should be implemented. A relatively small body of literature has been devoted to the selection of the FCR. The purpose of this article is to propose a set of considerations for practitioners in selecting FCRs.