Functional Behavioural Assessment Summary

This article describes the ins and outs of Functional Behavioral Assessments, including what an FBA is, why it is effective, who will conduct the assessment, and how it is conducted. A functional behavioral assessment, or FBA, is a plan of sorts that incorporates different strategies and techniques to determine what is causing the individual behavioral issues and determine the best way to help children solve the problem. This is an effective approach because it takes a closer look at all potential causes of the behavioral issues. It also targets ways to problem solve with students to correct and replace the inappropriate behavior with a desired replacement behavior. Depending on the severity of the behavioral issue, an FBA could be conducted …show more content…
Taking the information from steps one and two, one can form categorize behavior and form hypotheses about why a behavior is occurring. There are three categories to place these behaviors into, which will help in creating a behavioral intervention plan. The three categories address the reason that the behavior keeps occurring, either it is serving as a function for a student, it may be compensating for a skill deficit, or it could be related to a performance deficit. When the behavior is related to a skill or performance deficit, it is important to create a portion of the behavioral performance plan that will address the deficit as well. Throughout the whole process of assessing behavior the person that will be key in gathering, recording, and conveying information that will help in creating the plan will be the …show more content…
This assessment can be used to look at individual behavior, or it could be used to assess and make adjustments for an entire class with behavioral issues. By conducting these assessments, a teacher, or other professionals, can pinpoint specific contributors to negative behavior and work to eliminate those triggers. Being aware of different types of assessments that will match the behavior being observed will also be important. The input of a teacher and family will be important in an individual assessment, with the teacher being the most important in a classroom