Beyond Dysregulation: How FBAs and BIPs Can Support Your Child

About this episode

The episode discusses how Functional Behavioral Assessments and Behavioral Intervention Plans can help address severe sensory and emotional dysregulations in students, particularly those with disabilities.

It’s already March, and we are quickly approaching Spring Break season when different school districts have those breaks scattered over the next 4-6 weeks. Seeing a flare-up in behavior problems is not unusual during this time. There are highly severe sensory and emotional dysregulations happening with many students, and our goal should not be punishment. We need to appropriately address these behaviors that might be outside of the student’s control, especially those that are a result of a disability. Join us for today’s discussion about Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs) and Behavioral Intervention Plans (BIPs). Show Highlights: The first step in an FBA is to collect data to define and describe the behaviors. Sensory overload, avoidance, and seeking attention are common challenges that cause dysregulated behaviors. Unmet needs have to be understood and met before behaviors can be regulated; this is where a BIP comes in. A BIP can be helpful when “the behavior is affecting a student’s learning or the learning of others.” Autistic students may use masking behaviors at school and explode later. How FBAs compare to the former Functional Analysis Assessment Defining behavior in…

People in this episode

Hosts: Inclusive Education Project, Amanda, Vickie

Topics covered

• dysregulation
• Functional Behavioral Assessments
• Behavioral Intervention Plans
• sensory overload
• emotional regulation
• autism

Keywords

• dysregulation
• FBA
• BIP
• behavior problems
• autism
• sensory overload
• emotional regulation

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