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Functional Behavior Assessment. You go out and your car won’t start You have planted flowers in your yard and they seem to be dying You walk into your home and the first light switch you come to doesn’t work You try to use someone else’s cell phone and it doesn’t work
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Functional Behavior Assessment • You go out and your car won’t start • You have planted flowers in your yard and they seem to be dying • You walk into your home and the first light switch you come to doesn’t work • You try to use someone else’s cell phone and it doesn’t work • You go to make a purchase and your credit card won’t go through at the store
Functional Behavior Assessment • When do we employ FBA? • Why would we think of behavior intervention plans as teaching tools? • What does it mean to say plans should lead to positive outcomes for learners? • Why should it be a collaborative problem-solving approach?
Functional Behavior Assessment • How and why do we describe behavior? • Why do we examine what happens before the behavior occurs, where, how often/long, with whom, & the usual responses of others to the behavior? • Why do we examine the function of the behavior? What about students who have trouble expressing why they do things?
Functional Behavior Assessment • All behavior serves to get a need met • The causes of behavior are present in the environment(s) • Lasting behavior change requires to adjust the fit between the student and the environment • Positive behavioral supports are part of that process
