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Functional Assessment

Functional Assessment in Sycamore

The nice folks at Opportunity House in Sycamore, Illinois graciously hosted me for a training in functional assessment yesterday. There were lots of good questions asked during the question and answer session, which always makes a training more fun and interesting to present.

As with our other recent training sessions, I'm posting the slides
here and in the sidebar at right for anyone who wants to look through them.

The staff at Forest City Behavior provide multiple training presentations each year on a variety of topics related to autism, developmental disabilities, Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and other behavioral treatments, psychiatric treatment for people with DD. If you are interested in having a member of our team come to your site to talk, please feel free to
contact us.



Functional Assessment Screencast

Functional Assessment or How to Get Your Behavior Programs to Work was the first online training slideshow that we completed here at Forest City Behavior when we started down the road of putting training online. When the site was re-designed, some items were temporary casualties of the process.

I'm pleased to announce that this training presentation is back. You can click here for the link or find the link for the training presentation in the sidebar at the right.

The Functional Assessment training is an overview of the process of completing a comprehensive functional assessment, interpreting the results and, most importantly, translating the results into a behavior treatment program or plan. It should be helpful for anyone beginning to address behavioral needs.

by Erin J. Wade, PhD