D001 questions and answers (University of wisconsin)

FBA (Functional Behavior Assessment) an approach to figuring out why a student acts a certain way. It uses different methods to understand what's behind behavior challenges The basic idea is that a student's behavior serves a purpose. Whether they know it or not kids act in certain ways for a reason. If schools and families can understand what is causing a behavior they can find ways to change it. Target behavior This is the behavior of concern that is selected for intervention and is sometimes referred as the problem behavior. The target behavior is expected to increase or decrease as a result of implementing the functional assessment based intervention. Triggers Also known as antecedents or setting events the trigger is what causes the behavior. In technical terms antecedents of behavior are stimulus events situations or circumstances that precede an operant response. Consequences What occurs directly after the behavior including verbal interactions from staff/peers physical interactions from staff/peers and any type of prompting Strategies Positive behavior strategies are evidence based. proactive approaches to changing challenging student behavior. Some examples of positive behavior strategies are per correcting and prompting and nonverbal signs Hypothesis "best guess" about why the child's behavior is occurring. It is based on the information collected from the FBA. A good behavior hypothesis statement should clearly describe the challenging behavior what happens right before the behavior. and what happens right after the behavior. It should also contain the function of the behavior or what is the child getting from behaving this way. Function of behavior when one successfully identifies the function of the behavior one can reinforce an alternate acceptable behavior that will replace it. When a student has a particular need or function fulfilled by an alternate means the mal adaptive or unacceptable behavior is less likely to reappear. For example: if a child needs attention and one gives them attention in an appropriate way because of appropriate behavior humans