Functional Behavior
Assessments (FBAs)
CARE consultants, under the supervision of
Board Certified Behavior Analysts, will conduct or facilitate a
team-based Functional Behavioral Assessment process. The goal of
the FBA is to identify and operationally define the problem or
target behavior. The team then develops a hypothesis for the function
of the target behavior and determines whether the target behavior
is a skill (can't do) or performance (won't do) deficit. Team will
also look at antecedents that may trigger the behavior as well
as consequences that may serve to reinforce the behavior. The team
will outline various strategies that have been tried with the student
and then rate the level of effectiveness. The team will determine
if through the FBA process enough information has been gathered
to develop a Behavior Intervention Plan or whether there is a need
for more data.
Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs)
CARE consultants, under the supervision of Board Certified Behavior
Analysts, are able to develop and implement Behavior Intervention
Plans derived from the Functional Behavior Assessment process in
order to address individual student behavior.
Our consultants will
train staff members regarding:
- How to facilitate the development of a BIP
with various team members.
- How to use information gathered during
the FBA process to develop a Behavior Intervention Plan.
- Identify
preventative measures that will serve to decrease the likelihood
that the problem behavior will occur. This may include various
environmental, academic and behavioral supports.
- Identify replacement
behaviors that serve the functional equivalent to the problem
behavior.
- Identify a step-by-step plan for teaching
the replacement behavior to the student across settings which
may include the identification of specific behavior analytic
procedures.
- Develop appropriate consequences that will
effectively reinforce the use of the newly taught behavior and
reduce the likelihood that the student will engage in the problematic
behavior.
- Develop a simple data collection system
for ongoing monitoring of BIP goals and evaluation of BIP effectiveness.
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