Functional Behavioral Assessment Tool
Dr. Riffel wanted a tool that simplified data analysis. Knowing that many people are intimidated by Excel or simply do not have the time, she decided to create a better tool. After spending copious hours herself, collecting data and then converting it into an Excel spreadsheet to create graphs, she embarked on a way to hide Excel on the back side and create a tool that allows users to enter their data, and the tool instantly creates a graph that you can print out that shows the behavior in correlation to the triggers and the impacts of each behavior.
*Download the FBA Data Tool (you must download it first and then open it, or it will not work)
Behavioral Intervention Planning Tool (Competing Pathway Chart)
After sitting in numerous behavior support team meetings and understanding that many in the meeting did not understand the terminology being used by the behaviorist, we decided to simplify a tool that will help anyone at the table understand why we are developing the interventions to match the data in the behavioral analysis.
*Movie to watch on the Competing Pathway Chart
*Article from Dr. Gischlar and Dr. Riffel
Baseline/Intervention/Follow-up Data Tools
Many people write and ask for the FBA to take data for months at a time. This is not necessary, and there is too much data in high-frequency behaviors. The 15 days available are enough information to gain the functions of the behaviors, and after that, you can simplify and use frequency or duration data. This tool helps you chart that information to determine if your interventions are working.
*Video for how to use the BIF Tool
If you purchased the “How to Stop Playing Whack-a-Mole with Your Behavioral Intervention Planning” on www.amazon.com (associate link), here is the movie that accompanies that book.
Video Folder– This will take you to Google Drive, where you can view the videos and talking points for the book, How to Stop Playing Whack-a-Mole with Your Behavioral Intervention Planning.
Student Teacher Action Rating Sheet (STARS)
Are you looking for a behavior rating sheet that really works? This one does work because it has the student grade their own behavior at the same time as the adult. Then they compare their scores. This only takes a minute, but allows the student to understand why their adult gave them a “2” instead of a “3,” for example. The student walks away from the desk thinking, “I earned a 2” rather than thinking, “My adult gave me a 2.” This makes all the difference
*Video for “How to Talk to Family Members About the STARS Tool”
Reinforcers
We try to share with educators that students do best when the reinforcers are non-tangible. In 2004, a colleague and I started interviewing students about what they would really work for as an earned reinforcer. We found they came in the following categories:
- Privileges
- Attention
- Leadership
- Praise
- Assistance
- Touch
- Escape
- Supplies
Download the book here: Free or Low-Cost Reinforcers for Appropriate Behavior
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