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By programming reinforcement approximately every 15 s, the rate of reinforcement will be equivalent to mult FCT. During Period 1 of this project, trad FCT served as an appropriate control condition to which mult FCT could be compared.",[16,9],null,{"type":22,"name":28,"description":29,"armGroupLabels":30,"otherNames":26},"Mult FCT","This intervention involves correlating discriminative stimuli (e.g., purple and yellow index cards) with times in which reinforcement for the functional communication response (FCR) is and is not available. During Period 1 of this project, this procedure resulted in rapid reduction of destructive behavior and mitigated resurgence and renewal when the discriminative stimuli were used as programmed.",[9],{"type":22,"name":32,"description":33,"armGroupLabels":34,"otherNames":26},"Mult FCT + Stimulus Fading","This condition is similar to mult FCT except that the experimenters will gradually incorporate natural stimuli (e.g., rugs, tables, lamps) into sessions to approximate target settings that may occasion relapse typically without such gradual stimulus fading.",[16],[36],{"name":37,"affiliation":5,"role":38},"Wayne W Fisher, PhD","PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR",[40,44],{"name":37,"role":41,"phone":42,"phoneExt":26,"email":43},"CONTACT","8488008503","wayne.fisher@rutgers.edu",{"name":45,"role":41,"phone":46,"phoneExt":26,"email":47},"Serena Claiborne","8488008504","SClaiborne@childrens-specialized.org",[49],{"facility":50,"status":51,"city":52,"state":53,"zip":54,"country":55,"countryCode":56,"cosmosGeoPoint":57,"geoPoint":62,"contacts":63},"Children's Specialized Hospital - Rutgers University Center for Autism Research, Education, and Services","RECRUITING","Somerset","New Jersey","00873","United States","US",{"type":58,"coordinates":59},"Point",[60,61],-74.48849,40.4976,{"lat":61,"lon":60},[64,66],{"name":65,"role":41,"phone":42,"phoneExt":26,"email":43},"Wayne Fisher, PhD",{"name":45,"role":41,"phone":46,"phoneExt":26,"email":67},"sclaiborne@childrens-specialized.org",{"type":38,"investigatorFullName":69,"investigatorTitle":70,"investigatorAffiliation":5,"oldNameTitle":26,"oldOrganization":26},"Wayne W. Fisher, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LP","Henry Rutgers Endowed Professor of Pediatrics","100366002","refinements-of-functional-communication-training-100366002",false,"NCT04045600","Refinements of Functional Communication Training","Stimulus Control Refinements of Functional Communication Training","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* Boys and girls from ages 3 to 17\n* Destructive behavior that occurs at least 10 times a day despite previous treatment\n* Destructive behavior reinforced by social consequences like attention (FCT is not appropriate for automatically reinforced destructive behavior)\n* On a stable psychoactive drug regimen for at least 10 half-lives per drug or drug free\n* Stable educational plan and placement with no anticipated changes during the child's treatment\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n* Patients who do not meet the inclusion criteria\n* Patients currently receiving 15 or more hours per week of treatment for their destructive behavior\n* DSM-5 diagnosis of Rett syndrome or other degenerative conditions (e.g., inborn error of metabolism)\n* A comorbid health condition or major mental disorder that would interfere with study participation\n* Occurrence of SIB during study assessments that presents a risk of serious or permanent harm (e.g., detached retinas) based on our routine clinical-risk assessment\n* Patients requiring drug-treatment changes, but the experimenters will invite these patients to participate if they meet inclusion criteria after drug regimen is stable.","ALL","3 Years","17 Years",{"count":82,"type":83},24,"ESTIMATED","INTERVENTIONAL",[86],"NA","Although treatments for problem behavior, like functional communication training (FCT), can be highly effective in the clinic, changes in the way the FCT is implemented (e.g., when transferring treatment to the home, when teachers implement treatment with poor fidelity) can result in treatment relapse. The goal of this study is to evaluate whether using treatment signals and gradually introducing materials from natural contexts can help mitigate treatment relapse during context changes and poor treatment-integrity scenarios.",[89,90],"Aggression","Self-injurious Behavior","2026-06-15",{"date":93,"type":94},"2026-06-17","ACTUAL",{"date":96,"type":94},"2021-05-03",{"date":98,"type":83},"2026-12-31",{"name":5,"class":6},1]