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Functional communication training (FCT) has long been empirically supported as a best-practice approach for treating problem behavior and teaching alternative more appropriate forms of communication. However, the modality that is selected for the functional communication respons…

Positional bias is a pattern of responding to a specific location that can be influenced by response effort and/or prior learning history. Within the contexts of preference assessments, positional bias create additional variables that make ascertaining true preferences within a …