These articles present intervention strategies for addressing the functional communication needs of children with severe disabilities. Strategies include teaching children to reject or avoid nonpreferred items, to use socially acceptable communication to replace challenging behaviors, maintenance of communication behaviors, and to repair communication breakdowns.

Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:

• describe the use of Functional Communication Training and visual schedules to support language comprehension
• explain the role of response efficiency in intervention and its effect on treatment efficacy
• describe and define the components of response efficiency for both the AAC user and the communication partner
• describe interventions for teaching appropriate conversational repair behaviors to children with severe disabilities

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