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Brittany Hs PPT Slides

Over pages 546, 547, 548, 549


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Behavior Challenges through

Adolescence

While symptoms such as non-compliance,aggression, and stereotypic behaviors doimprove or abate as a person ages we want to

ensure long term success as they journey intoadulthood.

Examples of problem behavior in which otherswould want to intervene are: nonverbal adultengaging in self-injury or a teenager hittingclassmates to get attention.

Information from: mayer-johnson.com


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Intervening and Assessing Behavior

A team is usually put intoplace to address behaviorchallenges and to form aneffective intervention

plan. It is critical include all of

the people who workwith the individual for

more perspectives and agreater understandingthat allows for the mostproactive plan.

This team often includes:

Parents

Siblings

Special ed. Teachers

Paraprofessionals

Related serviceprofessionals

School administrators

Case managers


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Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)

Is defined in the textbook as the process that helps

teams move from reaction to proaction.

It is essentially a problem-solving approach that includesmultiple procedures to in turn create educational

supports and interventions that helps an individual

successfully unlearn a problem behavior.

It is flexible in the fact that different procedures can be

used under different circumstances.


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Functional Behavior Assessment(cont.)

The three essential steps of FBA are:

Team interview/record interview

Systematically observing the times, events, and

situations in which a behavior will and will not

occur

Establish a behavior hypothesis that will be usedto develop goals and a positive behavior plan

Source:www.tbh.com


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Step 1: Problem Identification

The team will start by identifying/defining theproblem. This entails moving from simpledescriptions to those that are much more

behaviorally defined and specific.

Example: Team may move from defining Lonnys

behavior as angry to something moredescriptive such as When Lonny is told nohe will hit, grab others, and fall to the floor.


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Step 2: Problem Analysis

The team will complete interviews and

observations so that a strong connection

between behavior, person, and environment

become clearer to everyone involved.

Example: Team might conclude that when Lonny

asks for a desired object or is told no he will

hit and scratch to get the object he desires.


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Step 3: Intervention Development

Once the team completesthe FBA they can developa multicomponentintervention plan.

Example: Lonny can nolonger use his currentpicture communicationdevice to avoid the

possibility he will ask forsomething he cannothave and becomeaggressive.

Strategies are individuallycreated to: Prevent the problem from

occuring

Teach the person a newway to get needs met

Respond to the problembehavior in a new way sothat it no longer works tomeet the individuals need


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Step 4: Monitoring Progress/Evaluate

It is critical that the team evaluate the success

of the plan because it is for the complete

benefit of the individual.

Success is typically measured by tracking

whether the problem behavior was decreased,

a new replacement behavior increased, and if

the persons life bettered from this plan.


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Benefits of FBA and Intervention

Team learns more effective ways of working

with students with autism

Team works with a variety of diverse services

and learns to collaborate

Team members who actually know the

individual are the ones scaffolding and

supporting them

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