Functional Assessment

Know about Functional Assessment and the Way it Works

Functional assessment involves various techniques to understand the way a child behaves. It basically identifies the cause behind the behaviors, the predecessor, then understanding the behavior and finally finding the result of the behavior. It is used in behavior analysis to find out the cause behind a particular behavior. Functional Behaviour Assessment or FBA is a collection of different procedures that are designed to ensure the reasons behind the behaviors shown by people with certain disabilities. It is believed that the people never show any kind of aggressive behavior without any reason and this assessment is a way to identify the logic behind it.

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Teaching ways to correct or control the inappropriate behavior is done by motivating them and rewarding them for good actions.
Methods of FBA

There are three basic methods involved in the functional assessment. They are:

 Functional Analysis
Functional Behaviour Assessment and functional analysis are two separate terms where the later one is a type of the assessment. Here in this method the practitioner intentionally tries to alter the antecedents and consequences of behavior to understand the results. Unlike other methods this actually tests the hypothesis to understand what’s causing the behavior.

 Direct Observation
Here the observer observes the daily activities of the person suffering from critical behavior. The observer then notes down happenings of before and after the unusual behavior to mark the cause of it. This method is used to create hypothesis on the function.

 Informant Methods
This method also helps creating hypothesis for the function of behavior. Here questionnaires and interviews are carried out of the person, family members, and teachers etc. to understand what happens before and after the critical