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Latency‐based functional analysis and treatment of elopement
Author(s) -
Kamlowsky Marissa E.,
Wilder David A.,
Ertel Hallie,
Hodges Ansley C.,
Colon Natalia,
Domino Laurel
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
behavioral interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.605
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1099-078X
pISSN - 1072-0847
DOI - 10.1002/bin.1781
Subject(s) - psychology , latency (audio) , autism , functional analysis , developmental psychology , audiology , clinical psychology , medicine , computer science , biology , genetics , telecommunications , gene
Although functional analysis (FA) methodology has been used to identify treatments for elopement, the results of some of these analyses have been confounded by the retrieval of participants. Recently, researchers have used latency‐based FAs, which eliminate the retrieval component during a session, to assess elopement. In the current study, we replicated previous research using latency‐based FAs to assess elopement exhibited by three children with autism. In addition, we evaluated function‐based treatments for each participant. The treatments effectively decreased elopement for all participants, partially validating the latency‐based FAs.