Dr. Ringdahl's Action Bridge: Optimizing FCT

Optimizing Functional Communication Training: An Individualized Framework for Selecting Durable Communication Modalities

Is your Functional Communication Training (FCT) failing due to weak maintenance or treatment relapse? Stop choosing communication modalities based on guesswork. This Action Bridge provides the evidence-based process to select the optimal communicative response, ensuring it is durable and resilient to real-world challenges.

Master the 3-Part Clinical Framework:

Select skills that compete with challenging behavior by systematically assessing:

• Efficiency: The new skill must require less response effort and be faster than the challenging behavior.
• Proficiency: Utilize modalities the client can already use with minimal prompting, leading to rapid, independent acquisition.
• Preference: The most critical variable for durability and resistance to change, ensuring skills persist even when reinforcement is delayed. Learn to run a concurrent schedule assessment to let non-speaking clients "vote with their behavior."

Includes Complete Clinical Toolkit:

Move instantly from learning to implementation with a complete Clinical Toolkit featuring a Decision Tree/Algorithm, Clinical Gap Analysis Matrix, Intervention Fidelity Checklists, Outcome Trackers, and supportive Parent/Caregiver Tools. 

Includes 1 BACB Learning CEU / General Professional Development Hour