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ArticleBehavioral interventions : theory & practice in residential & community-based clinical programs2023

Further evaluation of prompt density, rate of reinforcement, and the persistence of manding.

Joel E Ringdahl, Kayla Crook, Wendy K Berg, David P Wacker, Maggie Molony, Patrick Romani, Stephen Ryan, Anna Ryan, Karla Zabala

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Article in Behavioral interventions : theory & practice in residential & community-based clinical programs, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Authors and funding

9 authors.

Joel E RingdahlCenter for Autism and Behavioral Education Research, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4282-5150
Kayla CrookCenter for Autism and Behavioral Education Research, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3171-3658
Wendy K BergThe University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
David P WackerThe University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
Maggie MolonyCenter for Autism and Behavioral Education Research, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Patrick RomaniThe University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
Stephen RyanThe University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
Anna RyanThe University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
Karla ZabalaCenter for Autism and Behavioral Education Research, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5399-1686

Funding

Harnessing Communication Preferences to Enhance Its Persistence and Mitigate Relapse of Challenging BehaviorR01HD069377 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI Joel Ringdahl, Kelly Michele Schieltz · 2012 to 2026
$4.6M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD069377
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous research has evaluated the effects of prompt rates on the rate of communicative behavior. More recent research has suggested that dense prompting can result in communicative behavior that is more resistant to change. However, existing research has not considered the impact that higher response rates had on reinforcement rate, a variable known to impact response persistence. The current study systematically replicated previous research by evaluating communicative responding in contexts associated with dense- and lean-prompt schedules and extended existing research by (a) holding reinforcement rates similar across the two prompting schedules (lean and dense), and (b) evaluating the persistence of communicative responding in the contexts associated with each prompting schedule. The results for Experiment 1 clearly replicated and extended previous research. The results for Experiment 2 were equivocal and suggested that previous reinforcement history and response class size impacted outcomes.

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functional communication trainingmaintenanceprompt schedulesevere problem behavior

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PMID40747131
PMCPMC12312672

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