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Writing a Statement of Function

Writing a Statement of Function. SO WHAT????. Operational Definition. Review of Records. Indirect Assessment. ABC. Data Collection. FUNCTION. Writing a statement of function. Questions to ask: What data am I gathering that seems to be similar? What data contradicts each other?

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Writing a Statement of Function

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  1. Writing a Statement of Function

  2. SO WHAT???? Operational Definition Review of Records Indirect Assessment ABC Data Collection FUNCTION

  3. Writing a statement of function • Questions to ask: • What data am I gathering that seems to be similar? • What data contradicts each other? • Remember that direct observation trumps indirect! • Do these data point to one function, or a few? • Pick your battles!

  4. Writing a statement of function • Use observable terms and avoid explanatory fictions • Summarize all of your data from start to finish • This is not a list of all of the things that you did! • What are some anecdotal things that you observed? • “I will definitely take this into account while writing my behavior support plan and in future classrooms” • What is your hypothesis? What will you be focusing on?

  5. Selecting Appropriate Replacement Behavior

  6. Good Support Plans: • Support the person in the natural environment • Encompass a variety of settings and people • Can be carried out (with minimal training) by the people in the environment • Re-design of environments to reduce behavior • Emphasis on teaching replacement behavior • Functional communication Make problem behavior “irrelevant, inefficient, and ineffective” (Horner, 2000)

  7. Competing Response • What do we want to happen? Goals of Functional Behavior Assessment • Competing Stimuli • What parts of the environment are we willing to change? • Competing Reinforcers • What are we willing to do to make this a reality? • Antecedents • Specific Situations • Specific Events • Specific Stimuli • Consequence • What happened afterward? • Response • What did the child do?

  8. Identifying replacement behaviors • What can the child do instead of what s/he has been doing that serves the same function? • Also needs to be operationally defined • Dead man’s rule: if a dead man can do it, it’s not behavior! • Good replacement behavior: “taps person on the shoulder instead of hitting” • Bad replacement behavior: “sits quietly and waits” (can’t get attention that way…hitting works much better!)

  9. Evidence-based Practice • Use the library database for your evidence • Must be empirical in nature! • Search terms: Must include function • Functional assessment • Replacement behavior • Communication training

  10. Acceptable Journals (you’re not limited to these): • Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis • Research in Developmental Disabilities • Behavior Modification • Behavior Therapy • Behavior Analyst Online • Education and Treatment of Children

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