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- A positive behavioral support (PBS) plan is a written guide for individuals who are supporting a student engaging in problem behavior.
- Changes outlined in the positive behavioral support plan describe how the environment may be modified, what and how skills and strategies will be taught, and how individuals will respond to both positive and problematic behavior.
- Technical soundness refers to the extent to which a positive behavioral support plan is logically linked to the functional assessment and incorporates the basic principles of applied behavior analysis.
- Positive behavioral support plans are often developed by a team of individuals who are familiar with and are committed to providing support to a student.
- They key is to identify the strategies that will be successful, that people believe in, and that are likely to be maintained over time.
- Sometimes, when a student engages in one or two highly intense or problematic behaviors, there is a tendency to ignore the smaller, disruptive behaviors that occur.
- Positive behavioral support plans address more than a single period of time, situation, or setting in a student's life.
- Effective positive behavioral support plans focus on specific daily routines that are associated with problem behavior.
- Within a school setting, the types of behavioral support plans may look different based on the intensity of a student's problem behavior.
- The functional assessment gathers information related to the events that precede and increase the probability that problem behavior will occur.
- Use each area of the hypothesis statement to generate ideas that would make problem behavior unnecessary or less effective.
- The beginning of the positive behavioral support plan should provide general information including the student's name, date of birth, contact information, and the team members involved.
- An important initial step in the positive behavioral support plan is to clearly define the problem behaviors.
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A written positive behavioral support plan should restate the hypothesis statement.
- A general summary of the intervention strategies can be a useful way to help the team focus on a "big picture" view of the positive behavioral support plan.
- The purpose of the written plan is to create a process for building team consensus, enhancing planning efforts, ensuring professional accountability, providing historical documentation, and disseminating professional development information.
- The purpose of crisis prevention is to reduce the possibility of serious injury to the student and those around him.
- The positive behavioral support plan should include a description of the types of measurement procedures that will be used to evaluate its effectiveness and identify who will be collecting the information.
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