a) Topic: Briefly describe your topic of interest and why it is important. Importance should be related to previous research in the field and need to assess the intervention.

b) Literature Review: Locate an article related to your topic of interest. Indicate how it is related to your topic of interest. Be sure to cite it in APA style.

c) Research Question: Create a research question based on the topic. Remember to include all of the components of a good research question.

d) Independent Variable: Identify the intervention or treatment package.

e) Dependent Variable: Identify the target behavior(s).

Method Part 2

a) Participant(s): Describe the population and justify why they were selected for your study.

b) Measurement Procedure: Identify how you will capture the dependent variable and include whether the measurement you selected is continuous or discontinuous.

c) Design: Select one of the single case designs you learned about and justify the reason for selection.

d) Measurement Integrity: Based on your measurement procedure and design, indicate which IOA procedure you will use.

e) Procedural Integrity: Describe how you will account for treatment integrity.

Method Continued
f) Maintenance and Generalization: Describe considerations for maintenance and generalization.

g) Social Validity: Defend how your study has social validity

h) Ethical Considerations: Identify any ethical considerations in your research, such as consent, assent, conflicts of interest, etc.

i) General: Indicate where your visual display of data be located in a scientific paper.

j) General: Indicate where you would place the implications of your results in a scientific paper?

Instruction

Only answer the questions without writing in the form of a paragraph.

The topic for the project will be (part 1 question A): Is FCT an effective intervention for reducing self-injurious behavior in children diagnosed with ASD. This study will include three participants between the ages of 4 and 14 who have been diagnosed with ASD.

Part 1question b: The article related to the topic that is in the instruction must be cited in APA format in the project.

Part 2: Question C, the design will be multiple baselines across participants, to justify, don’t create graphs.