S7E4: Updated Recommendations for Reinforcement Schedule Thinning Following Functional Communication Training with Michael Kranak & Katherine Brown

Michael Kranak & Katherine Brown join us to talk about their paper, Updated Recommendations for Reinforcement Schedule Thinning Following Functional Communication Training   Show Notes   Remember to join us on Facebook to suggest articles to review and questions for authors. https://www.facebook.com/BApractice Acknowledgments Host and Executive Producer: Cody Morris, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LBA https://salve.edu/users/dr-cody-morris Assistant Producers Megan Ellsworth Jesse Perrin Organizational Support ABAI https://www.abainternational.org/welcome.aspx Behavior Analysis in Practice Editor, Stephanie Peterson, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LBA https://www.abainternational.org/journals/bap.aspx Music Cruising Altitude by Jim Carr and his band New Latitude http://www.newlatitudemusic.com Link to Article: Updated Recommendations for Reinforcement Schedule Thinning following Functional Communication Training | Behavior Analysis in Practice (springer.com)   References Brown, K. R., Gaynor, R. N., Randall, K. R., & Zangrillo, A. N. (2022). A comparative analysis of procedures to teach delay tolerance. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, 22(2), 195–211. https://doi.org/10.1037/bar0000224   Brown, K. R., Hurd, A., Randall, K. R., Szabo, T., & Mitteer, D. (2022). A family-centered care approach to behavior-analytic assessment and intervention. Behavior Analysis in Practice. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-022-00756-y   Brown, K. R., & Nercesian, S. J. (2024). Discriminative stimuli promote the efficacy of delay tolerance training. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, 24(2), 66–83. https://doi.org/10.1037/bar0000286   Greer, B. D., Fisher, W. W., Briggs, A. M., Lichtblau, K. R., Phillips, L. A., & Mitteer, D. R. (2019). Using schedule-correlated stimuli during functional communication training to promote the rapid transfer of treatment effects. Behavioral Development, 24(2), 110–119. https://doi.org/10.1037/bdb0000085   Hagopian, L. P., Boelter, E. W., & Jarmolowicz, D. P. (2011). Reinforcement schedule thinning following functional communication training: Review and recommendations. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 4(1), 4–16. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03391770   Kranak, M. P., & Falligant, J. M. (2021). Analysis of terminal schedule probes and schedule thinning effects following functional communication training. Behavioral Interventions, 37(3), 323-333. https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.1842   Mitteer, D. R., Boyle, M. A., & Craig, A. R. (2024). Reinforcement-schedule thinning practices during functional communication training: A survey of behavior analysts. Behavioral Interventions, 39(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.2002   Pizarro, E. M., Vollmer, T. R., & Morris, S. L. (2021). Evaluating skills correlated with discriminated responding in multiple schedule arrangements. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 54(1), 334–345. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.759   Strohmeier, C. W., Cengher, M., Chin, M. D., & Falligant, J. M. (2024). Application of a terminal schedule probe method to inform schedule thinning with multiple schedules. Journal of applied behavior analysis, 57(3), 676–694. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.1081