Acknowledgments About the Author 1. Overview of Functional Behavior Assessment 2. Function Based Support: Mining the Data for Gold 3. Indirect Methods for Determining Function of Behavior 4. Direct Methods for Data Collection 5. Observing and Recording Behavior 6. Crisis Plans 7. Data Don't Lie: Real Data from the Field 8. Analysis of the Data 9. Behavioral Intervention Planning Using a Problem Solving Model 10. Antecedent Manipulations or Modifications for Proactive Planning 11. Behavior Teaching 12. Consequence Modification 13. Sample Interventions Based on Function 14. Carrying Out the Plan and Follow-Up Appendix
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Laura A. Riffel is currently the director of Behavior Doctor Seminars, a company dedicated to helping teachers have all the tools they need to ameliorate behavioral issues in the classroom. She has trained hundreds of thousands of teachers, bus drivers, administrators, parents, paraprofessionals, counselors, psychologists, and social workers in the United States, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. She taught for over 30 years and ran a statewide program for children with behaviors that were impeding learning in the classrooms and a day program for children with severe behaviors.