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Functional Behavior Analysis Positive Behavioral Support. http://cecp.air.org/fba/default.asp http://challengingbehavior.org http://www.csefel.uiuc.edu/. Finish the sentence…. If a child doesn’t know how to read, we … If a child doesn’t know how to swim, we…
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Functional Behavior AnalysisPositive Behavioral Support http://cecp.air.org/fba/default.asp http://challengingbehavior.org http://www.csefel.uiuc.edu/
Finish the sentence… • If a child doesn’t know how to read, we … • If a child doesn’t know how to swim, we… • If a child doesn’t know how to multiply, we … • If a child doesn’t know how to behave, we…
Social Skills Essential for Academic Success • Get along with others (parents, teachers, peers) • Following directions • Identifying and regulating one’s emotions and behaviors • Thinking of appropriate solutions to conflict • Persisting on task
Engaging in social conversation and cooperative play • Correctly interpreting other’s behavior and emotions • Feeling good about oneself and others
Outcomes • Peer Interaction • Friendship skills • Recognizing and communicating emotions • Problem solving • Controlling anger and impulse
Preventing Challenging Behavior • Effective classroom environments • Physical arrangement • Teacher engagement in children’s behavior • Scheduling • Rules, routines and rituals
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Functions of Behaviors • All behaviors have a function/purpose • Important to identify the function of challenging behaviors • Take child’s perspective • Function may be to get or to avoid
Avoidance • Sensory stimulation • Attention • Demands • Tasks/activities • people
Obtain • Sensory stimulation • Attention • Objects/materials • People • assistance
Skill deficit • Performance problem
STEPS IN FBA • Describe and verify the seriousness of the problem • Refine the definition of the problem behavior • Collect information on possible functions of the problem behavior • Analyze information using data triangulation or problem pathway analysis
Generate a hypothesis statement regarding the probable function of the problem behavior • Test the hypothesis regarding the function of the problem behavior • Develop and implement a behavioral intervention plan
Monitor the faithfulness of implementation of the plan • Evaluation the effectiveness of the behavior intervention plan • Modify behavior intervention plan as needed