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A Treatment Package without Escape Extinction to Address Food Selectivity
Published on: August 21, 2015
Using Functional Communication and Competing Stimuli to Gradually Increase the Distance of Transitions in the
Michelle A Frank-Crawford1,2,3, Savannah A Tate1,2, Amanda Goetzel1
1Department of Behavioral Psychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD USA.
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Behavioral interventions are highly efficacious in reducing elopement. However, few studies explicitly examine elopement during transitions, and they typically do not discuss distance traveled during the transition. We report on a successful treatment consisting of functional communication to "go see" stimuli during transitions along with blocking and competing stimuli during reinforcer delays for a young boy whose elopement occurred during transitions and was maintained by positive reinforcement in the form of access to tangibles. During generalization, the distance of the transitions was gradually increased while maintaining low levels of elopement.
Supplementary Information:
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40617-024-00957-7.
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