Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Support Plan

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Running head: Functional Behavior Assessment Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Support Plan Julius Carter SPE-522 Grand Canyon University Instructor: Kathleen Hubbard April 5, 2012 Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Support Plan There are many students who have different types of disabilities, some of those students display aggressive behaviors, and some don’t. Oftentimes students that have disabilities have behaviors, and in having those behaviors many people consider them to be inappropriate behavior to display in a public setting. The actions that the students displays are deviant actions can result in a student needing special education services. The label that is given to those students who display this type of behavior would be called emotional disturbed. According to the IDEA this is one of the Special Education categories of listed disabilities. There are indeed some students who do display inappropriate behaviors that are undesired in the school district, and even behaviors that parents express are unwanted. Some of these behaviors are the inability to stay on task, escaping from work that may appear to be too difficult for the student to do, and negative responses for attention purposes. Within the contents of this paper explanation on the importance and components of a Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) and Behavior Support Plan (BSP) will be given, as well as description of when a student will need a FBA and BSP will be identified. One important fact to remember is that according to IDEA facilitators are required to perform a FBA in order to observe the student and discover the determining factor to the displayed behaviors. When discovering behaviors there can be an intervention put into place in order to assist the student in redirection to more appropriate behaviors. I strongly believe that

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