Functional Communication Training: Why It's More Than Just "Use Your Words"

Last time I talked about some beginning considerations in replacement skills. Today I want to talk about one of the most common type of replacement skills: communication skills. Functional Communication Training (FCT) is teaching specific communication skills that serve the same function as the challenging behavior. It's probably one of the most common forms of replacement skills that we use. We reference it all the time whenever we tell a student, "Use your words." However, replacing challenging behavior with communication isn't as simple as that. If it was as simple as that, we could just redirect and move on and the problem would no longer exist. And repeating "Use your words" multiple times isn't going to do it either. So what is FCT and how do we use it? Let's talk about that today.

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