32. What is an FBA and Why Your Child Might Need One

If your student's behaviors are interfering with their success in
the educational setting, an FBA might be just what they
need. 


An FBA is a behavioral assessment used to track data to figure
out why a student acts a certain way. In the assessment, the goal
is to determine what is behind the behavior which you might hear
referred to as the “function of the behavior” and what purpose
that behavior might be serving the student. This is important
because it leads the evaluator to look beyond just the behavior
and instead, to the underlying motivation for it.


An FBA leads to an overview of what function or purposes the
behavior serves so that the team can then use that information to
develop a Behavior Intervention Plan for that student, sometimes
called a BIP.


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