Conducting Preference Assessments
These are necessary to determine the various items or activities that clients are motivated to work for.
Preference Assessments
This is a criterion-referenced assessment tool, curriculum guide, and still tracking system that is designed for children with autism, and other individuals who demonstrate language delays.
VB-MAPP
An assessment method for getting information about the function that a problem behavior serves.
Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)
This type of assessment involves using interviews, checklists, rating scales, or questionnaires used to obtain information from people who are familiar with the person exhibiting the problem behavior.
Indirect Functional Assessment
This type of observation requires the BI to fill the environment with a variety of items that the client may like.
Contrived Observations
This assessment measures the personal and social skills of individuals from birth through adulthood.
Vineland-III
This type of assessment is used to gather information without direct observations of the behavior in question.
Ex: interviews, checklists, questionnaires, rating scales
Indirect Functional Assessments
ABC recording and scatterplots are common tools used in this type of assessment.
Descriptive Functional Behavior Assessment
These types of observations are conducted in the client’s everyday environment while the BI records how long the child engages with each item or activity.
Naturalistic Observations
This assessment is an educational tool used frequently with applied behavior analysis to measure the basic linguistic and functional skills of an individual with developmental delays on disabilities.
ABLLS-R
This type of assessment is a direct observation of problem behavior and the antecedent and consequent events under naturally occurring conditions.
Descriptive Functional Behavior Assessment
This records the behavior, as well as what immediate events preceded it and what occurred as a consequence.
ABC Recording
Single stimulus, paired stimulus, multiple stimulus with replacement, and multiple stimulus without replacement are examples of this type of way of identifying reinforcers.
Trial Based Methods
This assessment is geared toward patients with high cognitive abilities and focuses on basic living skills, home skills, community participation skills, school skills, independent living skills, and vocational skills.
AFLS
This type of assessment provides some information about the behavior without recreating conditions or having the client react to the presence of an observer.
Indirect Functional Assessment
A two-dimensional graph, recording the extent to which a target behavior occurs more often at particular times than others.
Scatterplots