Functional Behavioral Assessment Report
"The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) amendments of 1997 require that school personnel conduct a Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) when a child's behavior interferes with his or her learning and the learning of other. In each of these circumstances, the child's IEP team much considers, through manifestation determination, whether the behavior is directly and substantially related to the child's disability. If the misbehavior is determined to be a manifestation of the child's disability, a functional behavioral assessment must be conducted and a Behavioral Intervention Plan (BIP) developed, or reviewed if the BIP is already in place." (Scheuermann & Hall, 2016, p. 162). FBAs are done prior to BIPs. The purpose of the FBA is to determine what the student's target behavior is, the negative behavior, and what is causing the student to preform the negative behavior. The FBA looks at the antecedents of the behavior, the target behavior, and the consequences that come after. Many stake holders are involved in the writing of the FBA. The FBA contains interviews with parents and teachers and observations taken by the school social worker, the school psychologist, and/or the special education teacher. It also contains a hypothesis as to why the behavior is occurring, what the antecedent could be, what the function of the behavior is, what to replace the behavior with, and if any interventions have been used - what they are and why they failed. Based on the observations, interviews, and assessments done by the stake holders a FBA is written. Below is a link to a FBA that I wrote alongside other Hope College students. The case study was fake so confidentiality was upheld.
Behavioral Intervention plan report
After the FBA is completed and written a Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) is written. The BIP is written if the FBA showed that the student's behavior is adversely affecting the student's academics. "A BIP describes strategies that adults in the school setting will implement to increase appropriate behavior and reduce or eliminate inappropriate behavior. The strategies listed in the BIP should directly reflect the results of the FBA. In other words, the BIP should describe strategies for addressing antecedents for a problem behavior, for teaching new replacement behaviors, and for enabling the student to gain access more appropriately to the consequences that are maintaining the challenging behaviors." (Scheuermann & Hall, 2016, p. 169). The stake holders who are involved with the writing of the FBA also write the BIP. Below is a link to a BIP that I wrote alongside other Hope College students. The case study was fake so confidentiality was upheld.