Emotional Disturbance Under IDEA - ANSWERS-A. An inability to learn that cannot
be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors.
B. An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with
peers and teachers.
C. Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances.
D. A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression.
E. A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or
school problems.
Frequency - ANSWERS-The frequency of the behavior is simply the number of
times a student engages in it.
Rate - ANSWERS-The rate behavior is frequency expressed in a ratio with time.
Duration - ANSWERS-The duration of a behavior is a measurement of how long a
student engages in it.
Latency - ANSWERS-A behavior's latency is the length of time between
instructions to perform it and the occurrence of the behavior
,Topography - ANSWERS-The topography of behavior is the shape of the behavior
what it looks like
Force - ANSWERS-The force of a behavior is it intensity
Locus - ANSWERS-The locus of a behavior describes where it occurs either in the
environment or for example on the child or victims body
Piaget Cognitive Development - ANSWERS-States that children go through four
stages of cognitive development as they actively construct understanding of the
world
Sociocultural Vygotsky - ANSWERS-sociocultural cognitive theory that emphasizes
cognitive how cultural and social interaction guide cognitive development
Bandura's Social cognitive Theory - ANSWERS-behavior environment and
cognition are the key factors in development
Accountability - ANSWERS-The assessment of student progress on a regular basis
and the publication of this assessment as well as goals, objectives and procedures
to parents school administrators and other parties with a right to the information.
FBA (Functional Behavior Assessment) - ANSWERS-an approach to figuring out
why a student acts a certain way. It uses different methods to understand what's
behind behavior challenges
, The basic idea is that a student's behavior serves a purpose. Whether they know it
or not kids act in certain ways for a reason. If schools and families can understand
what is causing a behavior they can find ways to change it.
Target behavior - ANSWERS-This is the behavior of concern that is selected for
intervention and is sometimes referred as the problem behavior. The target
behavior is expected to increase or decrease as a result of implementing the
functional assessment based intervention.
Triggers - ANSWERS-Also known as antecedents or setting events the trigger is
what causes the behavior. In technical terms antecedents of behavior are
stimulus events situations or circumstances that precede an operant response.
Consequences - ANSWERS-What occurs directly after the behavior including
verbal interactions from staff/peers physical interactions from staff/peers and any
type of prompting
Strategies - ANSWERS-Positive behavior strategies are evidence based. proactive
approaches to changing challenging student behavior. Some examples of positive
behavior strategies are per correcting and prompting and nonverbal signs
Hypothesis - ANSWERS-"best guess" about why the child's behavior is occurring. It
is based on the information collected from the FBA. A good behavior hypothesis
statement should clearly describe the challenging behavior what happens right
before the behavior. and what happens right after the behavior. It should also
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