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Article: Using Functional Assessments to Develop Behavior Support Plans.
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- Preventing School Failure
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
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Students who display chronic problem behaviors in schools require specially designed and individualized interventions (Sprague, Sugai, & Walker, 1998; Walker et al., 1996). Fortunately, the behavioral technology for improving student behavior has advanced rapidly and significantly over the past 30 years (Repp & Horner, in press; Sugai, 1998; Sugai & Horner, in press). However, our capacity to select and modify interventions to meet the unique needs of each student is not as well established (Sugai, Horner, & Sprague, in press). Educators are challenged by problem behaviors that are difficult to influence, large amounts of assessment information that are collected and ...