Autism Classroom Resources

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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 We have started diving into the 5 Steps of Behavioral Support and our first step is beginning the functional behavior assessment. Or to paraphrase my friend Abby, the Undercover Secret Behavior Detective stage.  In this episode I am talking about the methods we can use to gather the information we need to help figure out the functions of the behavior….
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