Family guide
Should Communication Still Be Honored During Extinction?
Learn how communication during extinction should preserve matched messages, AAC, basic needs, pain and safety reports, partner response, assent, and fidelity.
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Family guide
How Can Families Tell an Extinction Burst From an Implementation Problem?
Learn how extinction burst vs implementation problem review checks baseline, consequence change, timing, fidelity, communication, health, and setting.
Family guide
What if Behavior Increases After an ABA Plan Changes?
Learn how to respond when behavior increases after ABA change using safety, health and access checks, baseline comparison, integrity data, and stop rules.
Family guide
Does Functional Communication Training Always Include Extinction?
Learn why FCT and extinction are separate clinical decisions and how families can review function evidence, alternatives, risk, communication, consent, and outcomes.
Family guide
When Should an FCT Schedule Be Thinned?
Learn when FCT schedule thinning may fit after stable communication, with clear signals, client experience, partner integrity, recurrence monitoring, and stop rules.
Family guide
How Should FCT Generalize Across Settings?
Learn how FCT generalization across settings depends on response access, partners, signals, natural opportunities, outcome availability, probes, and maintenance.
Family guide
What if Communication Partners Respond Differently During FCT?
Learn how to compare FCT communication partners using message recognition, response latency, outcome quality, prompts, access, fidelity, and separate results.
Family guide
How Does FCT Address More Than One Behavioral Function?
Learn how FCT multiple functions may require distinct messages, context cues, partner routines, outcome evidence, feasible measurement, and hypothesis revision.
Family guide
What if the Requested Outcome Is Unavailable During FCT?
Learn how FCT handles an unavailable outcome through honest partner response, safety and basic-needs boundaries, clear signals, alternatives, choice, and review.
Family guide
Can Functional Communication Training Use AAC?
Learn how FCT AAC access protects continuous communication, vocabulary, positioning, charging, backup modes, partner recognition, client choice, and coordination.
Family guide
Can FCT Teach More Than One Communication Form?
Learn how FCT multiple communication forms can include speech, AAC, sign, gesture, or writing with shared meaning, access, partner recognition, and measurement.
Family guide
How Quickly Should Partners Respond During FCT?
Learn how FCT partner response timing uses eligible messages, recognition, planned latency, unavailable outcomes, missed responses, client experience, and data.
