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Ward, Shannon N.; Hanley, Gregory P.; Warner, Christine A.; Gage, Ellen E. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2021
When problem behavior is controlled by a synthesized reinforcement contingency, a simple omnibus mand that yields access to all reinforcers simultaneously has been shown to effectively replace problem behavior. The question arises as to whether teaching an omnibus mand will preclude the acquisition of specifying mands for each of the combined…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification, Reinforcement, Autism
Ghaemmaghami, Mahshid; Hanley, Gregory P.; Jessel, Joshua – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2021
Functional communication training (FCT; Carr & Durand, 1985) is a common function-based treatment in which an alternative form of communication is taught to reduce problem behavior. FCT has been shown to result in substantial reductions of a variety of topographically and functionally different types of problem behavior in children and adults…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Behavior Problems, Behavior Change
Whelan, Cory J.; Hanley, Gregory P.; Landa, Robin; Sullivan, Emily; LaCroix, Kara; Metras, Rachel – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2021
General and long-term outcomes of functional analysis training have not yet been reported. Within a randomized control trial, we trained 18 behavior analytic practitioners to interview caregivers, design and then conduct a personalized analysis as a part of a practical functional assessment (PFA). Participants were randomly assigned to groups, and…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Seminars, Training, Functional Behavioral Assessment
Ghaemmaghami, Mahshid; Hanley, Gregory P.; Jessel, Joshua; Landa, Robin – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2018
Response efficiency plays an important role in the initial success of functional communication training (FCT). Although low-effort functional communication responses (FCRs) have been shown to be most effective in replacing problem behavior; more developmentally advanced FCRs are favored later in the treatment process. Attempts to teach these more…
Descriptors: Responses, Communication Skills, Training, Behavior Problems
Vanselow, Nicholas R.; Hanley, Gregory P. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2014
Previous research has demonstrated the efficacy of behavioral skills training (BST) and in situ training (IST) for teaching children to protect themselves. However, BST may be resource intensive and difficult to implement on a large scale. We evaluated a computerized version of BST (CBST) to teach safety skills and determined the extent to which…
Descriptors: Safety Education, Young Children, Behavior Modification, Skill Development
Luczynski, Kevin C.; Hanley, Gregory P.; Rodriguez, Nicole M. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2014
The preschool life skills (PLS) program (Hanley, Heal, Tiger, & Ingvarsson, 2007; Luczynski & Hanley, 2013) involves teaching social skills as a means of decreasing and preventing problem behavior. However, achieving durable outcomes as children transition across educational settings depend on the generalization and long-term maintenance…
Descriptors: Generalization, Maintenance, Skill Development, Prompting
Hanley, Gregory P.; Fahmie, Tara A.; Heal, Nicole A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2014
In an attempt to address risk factors associated with extensive nonfamilial child care, we implemented the preschool life skills (PLS) program (Hanley, Heal, Tiger, & Ingvarsson, 2007) in two community-based Head Start classrooms. A multiple baseline design across classrooms, repeated across skills, showed that the program resulted in a 5-fold…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Evaluation, Daily Living Skills, Early Childhood Education
Beaulieu, Lauren; Hanley, Gregory P. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2014
We used a multiple baseline design across skills to evaluate the effects of a program to teach a classroom of children to respond to their name and a group call (i.e., precursors) as well as to peer mediate these precursors to promote compliance with a variety of multistep instructions. Teachers taught these skills via classwide behavior skills…
Descriptors: Compliance (Psychology), Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Skill Development
Beaulieu, Lauren; Hanley, Gregory P.; Roberson, Aleasha A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2013
We used a multiple baseline design across participants to evaluate the effects of teaching 4 typically developing preschoolers to attend to their names and to a group call (referred to as "precursors") on their compliance with typical classroom instructions. We then measured the extent to which the effects on both precursors and…
Descriptors: Peer Mediation, Preschool Children, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment
Luczynski, Kevin C.; Hanley, Gregory P. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2013
We evaluated the effects of the preschool life skills program (PLS; Hanley, Heal, Tiger, & Ingvarsson, 2007) on the acquisition and maintenance of functional communication and self-control skills, as well as its effect on problem behavior, of small groups of preschoolers at risk for school failure. Six children were taught to request teacher…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Prevention, Behavior Problems, Communication Skills
Kraus, Aaron J.; Hanley, Gregory P.; Cesana, Lori L.; Eisenberg, Danielle; Jarvie, Adam C. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2012
We evaluated the strategy of increasing precursors to compliance on the compliance of 2 preschool boys. Modeling and differential reinforcement were used to increase specific responses to his name being called prior to the opportunity to comply with an instruction. The precursors were stopping the ongoing activity and orienting to, making eye…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Reinforcement, Preschool Children, Evaluation
Francisco, Monica T.; Hanley, Gregory P. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2012
We evaluated the effects of different intertrial intervals (ITIs; time between programmed learning opportunities) on the acquisition and generalization of 2 preschoolers' social skills. Independent and generalized skills were observed only when the daily ITI was gradually increased from short to progressively longer intervals. (Contains 1 figure…
Descriptors: Generalization, Intervals, Interpersonal Competence, Preschool Children
Beaulieu, Lauren; Hanley, Gregory P.; Roberson, Aleasha A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2012
We assessed teacher-child relations with respect to children's name calls, instructions, and compliance in a preschool classroom. The most frequent consequence to a child's name being called was the provision of instructions. We also observed a higher probability of compliance when children attended to a name call. Next, we evaluated the effects…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Probability, Preschool Children, Compliance (Psychology)
Wallace, Michelle D.; Iwata, Brian A.; Hanley, Gregory P.; Thompson, Rachel H.; Roscoe, Eileen M. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2012
We conducted 2 studies to determine whether dense and thin NCR schedules exert different influences over behavior and whether these influences change as dense schedules are thinned. In Study 1, we observed that thin as well as dense NCR schedules effectively decreased problem behavior exhibited by 3 individuals. In Study 2, we compared the effects…
Descriptors: Positive Reinforcement, Behavior Problems, Comparative Analysis, Functional Behavioral Assessment
Heal, Nicole A.; Hanley, Gregory P. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011
This study describes an unexpected behavioral process that influenced behavior during the teaching of concepts to a 4-year-old girl. The efficacy of and preference for three strategies that varied in teacher directedness were assessed in a multielement design and concurrent-chains arrangement, respectively. The strategy that involved the most…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Teaching Conditions, Teaching Methods, Punishment