Somewhat Invisible

A behavior analyst is a HIPAA covered entity that is contracted by the school to conduct an FBA.  The Director of Special Education tells the behavior analyst that they have all the necessary consents from the parents and to get started right away.  The behavior analyst begins by conducting an observation and distributing a questionnaire to the teachers.  At the end of the day she calls the parent and the parents asks “What is an FBA?”

Helping Hand

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Index of Inclusion Supports

  • Social acceptance / making friends
    • Cooperative learning
    • Incorporating interests into social opportunities
    • Social validation of how peers act, what they talk about
  • Learning environmental cues and routines
    • Ecological assessment
    • Social stories
    • BST
  • More independence with academic tasks
    • Asking for teacher feedback
    • Self-monitoring
  • Classroom staff are struggling with inclusion
    • Ask teachers about their concerns
    • Instruct staff on simple strategies for engaging the student
    • Provide instruction to 1:1 staff on how to facilitate social interaction
    • Offer assistance for developing programs
    • Offer assistance for identifying adaptations
  • Identify appropriate responses and response rates
    • Social validation through observation of peers
    • Observing how peers respond to learner
  • Social skills training
    • Target specific skills, such as having a conversation
    • Model with multiple exemplars
    • In-vivo practice
    • Utilize peer groups
    • Prompt with a variety of initiations and responses
  • Peers are closed off socially
    • Whole class initiatives
    • Group contingencies for cooperative interactions
  • The learner’s experience of inclusion is unclear
    • Ask learner for feedback
    • Document engagement across various inclusion activities and contexts
    • Ask parents about changes they have observed