Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design

Resources for Conducting a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) A number of resources for conducting interviews and observations are available via the Internet. For example, www.functionbasedthinking.com is a comprehensive website with a training manual, interview and observation tools, and interactive web lessons based on the research-based Basic FBA process (Loman, Strickland-Cohen, & Borgmeier, 2013). At this website, the interview tool that is taught is the modified Functional Assessment Checklists for Teachers (FACTS; March, Horner, Lewis-Palmer, Brown, Crone, & Todd, 1999) available at: https://sites.google.com/a/pdx.edu/functionbasedthinking/home/fba-bsp-instructions- and-forms . Another useful interview tool for identifying the function of behavior that is available online is the Motivation Assessment Scale (MAS; Durand, 1990: http://www.nsseo.org/wp-content/uploads/MAS.pdf ) . The ABC Recording Form (Loman, 2009) is taught and used as an observation procedure within the Basic FBA process: https://sites.google.com/a/pdx.edu/functionbasedthinking/home/fba-bsp- instructions-and-forms . Another popular tool is the Scatterplot that helps teachers track student behavior across times and days. This scatterplot tool is available at: http://www.pbisillinois.org/curriculum/Course-Materials/t200fi-individualized-student- support-via-complex-fba-bip-wraparound-for-students-with-tertiary-level- needs/T200fi-ScatterPlot-ILPBIS-9.3.08.doc?attredirects=0 . For more information on the FBA process, review the training materials on www.functionbasedthinking.com and http://www.pbisillinois.org/trainings/fba-bip-training-materials . The PBIS Illinois website offers links to past webinars presenting information on conducting an FBA and designing function-based supports. 63