Understanding Behavior: A Framework for Intervention
Leaders can use these documents and resources to deepen their knowledge about how behaviors develop and the use of proactive strategies to avoid behavioral escalations. Additionally, the resources offer guidance for using the Understanding Behavior: A Framework for Intervention Navigation Essentials toolkit to facilitate training and professional development with their teams.
Downloads
Discover ways to encourage your team to explore the toolkit and how to use the toolkit for professional development and training.
Promoting Understanding Behavior: A Framework for Intervention Toolkit to Your Team
Access this guidance document to promote the toolkit to your team, colleagues, and others who work with youth with complex needs and are involved with developing supports to address behavioral concerns.
Using Understanding Behavior: A Framework for Intervention for Training and Professional Development
Access this guidance document to identify ways to use the toolkit videos, tools, and resources in professional development, meetings, or training activities.
Tools and Resources
Use the following resources and tools to further your skills and enhance your team’s knowledge.
- Foundations of Evidence-Based Strategies
This free set of foundational courses uses video examples in home, school, work, and community settings to introduce evidence-based strategies that can be used to develop social-communication and academic skills, positive behaviors, and independence.
- Autism Internet Modules (AIM)-Behavior Modules
AIM offers free professional development for those who teach or support people with autism or complex needs. Several modules that can help leaders support their teams design behavior supports include Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA), Reinforcement, Prompting, Cognitive Behavioral Interventions, and Behavior Intervention Plans.
- Functional Behavioral Assessment Interview Form
Use the guiding questions in this tool from the Kansas Institute for Positive Behavior Support to assist a team to identify factors that contribute to the development of challenging behaviors.
- Challenging Behavior: Expect Success
This 14-part webinar series is based on positive behavior intervention supports (PBIS), functional behavior assessment (FBA), and behavior intervention planning. View the entire series in order using the provided tools to learn the process. Or select a video to learn more about a specific step in the process.
- Book Study Practical Strategies for Supporting Emotional Regulation in Students with Autism: Enhancing Engagement and Learning in the Classroom
Based on research, this guide provides descriptions of strategies followed by ways to implement the strategies in inclusive environments. Using real-life examples, the authors connect emotional regulation to understanding behaviors, learning, and engagement in the classroom. The presented strategies are appropriate for many youth with disabilities other than autism.