Autism Classroom Resources

In Step 4 of the 5 Steps to Meaningful Behavioral Support, we are focusing on crafting our behavior support plans based on our hypotheses statements (from episode 13). We are developing behavior support plans that not only reduce challenging behavior but one that can also be implemented in the classroom.   And our goal is to end up with a…
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We’re now moving into Step 3 in our 5-step process of meaningful behavioral support and that is developing our FBA hypothesis statements. Now keep in mind that a hypothesis is a best guess. We don’t know that this is what’s actually driving the behavior until we confirm our hypothesis and I’ll be talking about that later in the series and…
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So you took your ABC data that we talked about in Episode 10 but now you have all this FBA data and you have to figure out what do with it. This is the episode that can help get you started with analyzing that data. In our next episode I’ll talk about how to integrate all your information collected (e.g.,…
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 Have you heard of setting events?  Setting events may affect when the student reacts to certain antecedents at one time and not another.  Consequently, while sometimes hard to track, they are important to consider in your functional behavior assessment to assure your results are accurate. In this episode of the podcast, I talk about setting events as a factor we need…
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 Our next step in gathering information for a functional behavior assessment is collecting ABC data.  Antecedent-behavior-consequence data is a critical piece of the type of naturalistic assessment we typically do in a classroom.   I recently asked on Facebook who does the FBAs at the follower’s schools and many said they had BCBAs who do the actual FBA…which is great.  With…
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