Summary Of Challenging Behavior

Assessment Summary Form

Student Description: Maya is a 5 year old child enrolled in a pre-k program. Maya enjoys learning and does well academically. She enjoys doing her school work and does well with recognizing her letters, writing, and numbers. She enjoys being a helper and often volunteers to help other children and to assist daycare workers in task such as sorting folders, gathering and handing out supplies, being line leader, and helping out during circle time. She struggles to get along with her other classmates and frequently has challenging behavior during the school day and in the afternoon school program at her school. Challenging behavior observed:

Challenging behavior that I have observed include the following:
Screaming
Making loud noises
Rearranging teacher materials
Pushing, scratching, hitting other children
Grabbing toys out of other children's hands
Throwing objects
Drawing inappropriate pictures
Ripping papers including other children's work Operational Definition of Challenging Behavior:

Operational Definition of Target Behavior:

Maya engages in many off tasks behavior including: …show more content…
The antecedent that occurred most frequently when the challenging behavior took place was the child receiving a lack of attention or daycare workers attending to other children. Some patterns that I observed regarding the occurrence of the challenging behavior was that the child would most often try to get the daycare workers to look at her. The behavior would often occur when the daycare workers were watching or were close by. The child seemed to be wanting to get the attention in order to have that one on one time. The behavior did not take place when the child was receiving lots of attention or sitting one on one with a daycare