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require additional programs to be designed. The sample was comprised of mostly special adult attention and obtain peer attention, academic escape, and social escape. identify modifying ABSTRACT Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA), though mandated by federal law, is a time-consuming and resource-intensive set of procedures that often leads to timeconsuming and complicated behavioral interventions. It is often conducted by district experts, and not the educational teams that work daily with students engaging in problem behaviors in schools. The current investigation employed a national survey of CCBD members to see if educational professionals could identify functionally-related interventions for problem behaviors that already exist in their school setting, and do not education teachers, though some administrators, school psychologists and consultants were included in the sample. The survey included vignettes of fictional students and functions were identified and explicitly stated. The four functions included were: obtain Results of the survey study indicate that professionals were able to identify function-based interventions that exist in their school settings 85% of the time throughout the survey. The majority of interventions reported either antecedent or consequence manipulations, far fewer reporting interventions that aimed to teach a new behavior. Ninety-three percent of interventions reported were positive approaches to modifying it consuming. behavior. Whereas respondents did not rate the FBA Matrix as very helpful, they did identify that they like the fact that FBA procedures lead to effective interventions and teamwork among professionals. The most frequently reported complaint about FBA was that is very time-consuming. |
