 Because you never know what sort of crap you're gonna run into every time you flip one of these Lost my voice. I'm so excited every time you flip one of these pages So since you're still here or you're just starting you need to know that there's another video on functional analysis So now I'm basically gonna tell you that it's pointless So go watch that one first before you watch this one And you can watch all my other videos because this is an FA on steroids or minus the steroids or whatever you want to think About in fact, I don't know like I can't even make a jokes about slanting and handling right Raftery, Raftery, Raftery. I shouldn't be making jokes about people's names, but I can't resist so anyway This is part of Jessica Slanton's probably your dissertation. I'm not 100% sure could be a master's thesis It's a heck of an awesome article. So interview informed functional analysis a comparison of synthesized and isolated components Largely based on Hansel Hanley's work in the 24 the 24 the 2014 canonical article from Hanley about the ISCA which ISCA I guess I don't know ISCA I SCA which we'll talk about the II SCA interview informed synthesized Interview informed Interview informed synthesized Something analysis Brad, what's the C in that? Hold on reason gentlemen bear with us as we dig up what the ISCA is This is really embarrassing, and I'm gonna keep it in the video because I just want you to show that now one's perfect. All right, um Component component No, I can't read my own handwriting. It's contingency Of all words in behavior analysis to forget Contingency so the ISCA sorry dr. Hanley's sorry probably dr. Slanton at this point The ISCA is the interview informed synthesized Right you're basically trying to figure out the function of a behavior issue And that is what you would do is look at the contingencies. It's some days It's the gloves folks. It's just the gloves. It's all I have to say. All right, so this one's 2017 So take a look Take a look at Slanton's article. I'll post the reference down there. So you can look it up yourself and buy a copy All right, so here we go. So It's all about FA Kind of it's about a modified version of FA because we can look back and talk about these are kind of sweaty and it's weird so we can look back and talk about a What is functional analysis now keep in mind that a water 82 water 94 all of these articles and a whole bunch In between there not just from water But from all sorts of researchers and tons and tons of people doing this in practice have talked about the value of Functional assessment or analysis. There's tons of different types of functional analysis. I even had some of them down I don't know if I can read them here There's I Don't know the traditional FA. There's precursor FA's their latency FA's There's all sorts of different types of functional analysis that's been looked at over the years but one of the benefits of the functional analysis is also one of its drawbacks by Identifying so crystal clearly what the different functions are for that clients problem behavior You might be putting your blinders on to some bigger issues Which might be that maybe it's more than one thing that's reinforcing the behavior or maybe it's more than one behavior that you're dealing with Right, maybe it's a series of behaviors. Maybe it's a chain, right? Maybe behavior a precursor behavior comes always before the second behavior So what if you can work with the first behavior before you get to the problem behavior? So anyway, the ISCA allows you to pick up on some of those things and it's pretty cool so Basically so many types of FA is out there describes a large set of variations on traditional FA So there I found this article really awesome because it goes there's a ton of amazing references in there They she covers some really cool stuff in terms of if you want some good good background on what FA is and the different types Of it's really well covered So let's get into the ISCA though. So the ISCA kind of switches the gears instead of just this immediate direct observation You get into Open-ended interviews with people that know about the client's behavior and you ask questions about what they think you get Really pointed these things can take like 30-40 minutes to do these interviews and you do them from her sources You know just go to one person you go to multiple people and you kind of you kind of synthesize all of that into one go All right, what are the different things triggers for the kid? I know triggers discriminative stimuli But when you're talking in an interview a looser interview form you got to just try to get the information however You can't you translated how you want? So anyway, you get all this information you figure out what probably is it maintaining the behavior based on these things Then you figure out under what can did flies under what conditions it happens Usually and what triggers and what setting events and all these sort of things happening and you're getting all this information And then you're going to take and instead of doing four different conditions you're going to do two You're going to synthesize these things and using the multi-element design again You're going to synthesize this stuff all the different reinforcers right the potential reinforcers So you might put an attention condition and and even an escape condition depending on the scenario our attention and Automatic you could do all sorts of things that Combine them together because it seems like this behavior is maintained by multiple things according to all these people you've interviewed Anyway, and then you also so I'm looking at that. That's so you kind of I'm combining that it's too hot I can't you're you're combining the establishing operations kind of into one and you also look at broader response Topographies you're not just looking at the one response You're looking at multiple responses and the topographies of those responses Precursor behaviors things that always come right before like I make I do a certain thing with my hands Before I make a specific point right so is this a precursor behavior to me making a specific point Maybe it is but you could you could maybe work with one of those behaviors or both of them In these types of settings instead of just identifying the one self-injurious behavior So maybe you're counting the other thing too. So anyway multi-element designs. We've already talked about She had two studies in this article first one was just comparing Whether or not you can differentiate with the ISCA versus a traditional FA. That's where it's cool They did both now they did the FA actually on the same kiddos, but they did it second So they did that FA second So the benefit of the carryover effect of learning the information that you learn from the ISCA carries over into the FA They gave the FA the double like we're gonna give you an extra bonus of success here So we're gonna we're gonna give them the bonus rather than giving the ISCA the boss Which is really cool when you look at the results. Why because out of the nine kids They were able to differentiate what the the function was Relatively speaking for all nine all nine But for the traditional FA not so much they got four out of nine Which is less than 50% for those of you that don't remember that nine divided by two is four and a half And you can't have a half of a child in this scenario. So it's less than half So less than half of the clients were We're differentiated in using a standard FA. Where's the ISCA nailed at nine out of nine times that alone is pretty awesome But she had studied to Now keep in mind this is a 2017 article 28 to the 2014 article talks about the development of the ISCA It's already singing its praises and it's awesome It's all that stuff But this one takes it a step further and it goes which interventions were better based on the data So based on that data now, you know what's differentiated so they went ahead and developed interventions based on the ISCA or based on the traditional FA and ISCA guess what all four they worked with four kids So all four kids with the ISCA all right the interventions were successful at reducing behavior all four I Think yeah Which is awesome, but for two of those kids it was more effective than the FA The FA was effective for all of them too. Okay, so equally there was it's my my mouth actually makes sense It probably doesn't sound like it the way I'm talking the FA and the ISCA were equally effective for two out of the four kiddos all right clients And the FA was more effective or the the ISCA was more effective than the FA for two So but all four were helped by the ISCA. So the point is is that? Wow, you got a new technique here and that technique is Arguably more valuable in the field than an FA is arguably Science changes slope and the water is pretty pretty big You know and then that FA procedure is awesome and here's a new one kind of popping up And that's good. We like that and the data seems to be really promising So I want you to keep that in mind learn about the ISCA. I think it's really important to learn about you Can pull the journal articles on it Hanley's the primary researcher behind it great Gregory P. Hanley But I think the last couple of points is the behavior is complex Yoes are complex. You know, it's not just one thing that's my signal behavior to start and behaviors Um Combine right so you get these chains of the behaviors messy. It's kind of compound stimuli compound behaviors all sorts of stuff and Ultimately speaking you have Also situations where reinforcers may or may not be as crystal-clear as what you think Sometimes multiple things reinforce the same behavior ISCA. It's cool. It's quicker. It's based in the real world It's not just straight-up experimental It is experimental, but it's not just straight-up rigid as much as an FA But it seems to produce the same amount of data and you could do more with it Arguably according to this author. So anyway, go out and read. See ya