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Behavior consultants conducted functional analyses FAs via telehealth with 20 young children with autism spectrum disorders between the ages of 29 and 80 months who displayed problem behavior and lived an average of miles from the tertiary hospital that housed the behavior consultants.
Behavior consultants briefly trained parent assistants to provide on-site support for families during consultations. Results suggested that behavior analysts can conduct FAs effectively and efficiently via telehealth.
One difficulty that many families experience is not having access to trained applied behavior analysts who can effectively implement procedures such as functional analysis FA or FCT. The lack of access to applied behavior analysis ABA services in rural states such as Iowa often results in long delays in receiving needed behavioral services, families having to absorb significant costs to obtain those services from out-of-state providers, or children going without needed services.
Other studies have shown that FA methods are learned easily Iwata et al. For example, brief versions of FAs e. A second adaptation of FA procedures has involved conducting them in the homes of children with developmental disabilities who display problem behavior Wacker et al. Wacker and colleagues have shown repeatedly that parents can conduct FAs in their homes when trained behavior analysts provide them with on-site coaching Berg et al.
