What decision will need to be made by the educational team as to whether a behavior requires functional assessment and intervention?

Persons to be interviewed during the functional behavior assessment should always include:

The functional behavior assessment interview process may be based on informal conversations, however it is recommended that the team consider interviews that are:

Early in the functional behavior assessment interview process, an important step is:

Interviewees may provide information that could result in an invalid hypothesis about the child’s challenging behavior. This may occur since:

The functional behavior assessment and intervention model is built on a core set of assumptions concerning the development and maintenance of both appropriate and challenging behaviors. These assumptions guide the identification of the supports for challenging behavior and the interventions that are developed to address challenging behavior. Which of the following are core assumptions?

Information gained through the functional assessment interview process is based on the informants’ experiences, prior observations, and impressions. Therefore, the functional assessment interview process is __________ and should not be the sole basis for selecting interventions.

The _________ encourages educational teams to add goals and positive behavioral intervention strategies and supports to the child’s individualized education plan (IEP) to address challenging behavior (Bradley, 2007). It identifies functional behavioral assessment (FBA) and positive behavioral intervention plans (BIPs) as tools for the team to use as they develop plans to address a student’s challenging behavior.

The functional behavior assessment interview process may be brief, relatively easy, and require little training. Therefore, it is no surprise that interviews are commonly used when a team attempts to identify the environmental variables maintaining the challenging behavior. However, there are considerable threats to the functional assessment interview process. These threats are known to affect the __________ and __________ of the results. Relying on interviews alone will limit the team’s ability to select effective interventions.

Interviewees may have a difficult time identifying the __________ variables and/or may identify the __________ variables related to the challenging behavior of concern.

Which is true about the functional behavior assessment?

When we describe the function(s) of the behavior, we should concentrate on:

Various standardized interview formats can be used during a functional behavior assessment. An extensive standardized interview protocol that requires 45–90 minutes is the:

Which is a risk in exclusively relying on functional behavior assessment interviews?

To gain information about the student’s perspective regarding the variables that are related to the challenging behavior, it is recommended that the team should interview the:

__________ guidelines exist stating how many individuals should be interviewed, who should be interviewed, and how often and/or across how many sessions the student’s behavior subsequently should be observed.

When interviewing team members, what should be identified?

What decision will need to be made by the educational team as to whether a behavior requires functional assessment and intervention?