
Clinician guide
How to Assess Requests for Change, Support, or Accommodation
Assess requests for change, support, or accommodation using authored messages, decision authority, interim access, responses, alternatives, reasons, and outcomes.
Clinical guides, tools, and evidence-informed resources for thoughtful, high-quality ABA care.

Clinician guide
Assess requests for change, support, or accommodation using authored messages, decision authority, interim access, responses, alternatives, reasons, and outcomes.

Clinician guide
Assess information and clarification requests using questions, partner availability, accurate responses, timing, comprehension checks, privacy, and outcomes.

Clinician guide
Separate a self-advocacy message from adult interpretation using authorship, stated meaning, uncertainty, correction, proxy paraphrase, response, and outcome.

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Define a self-advocacy assessment question using a chosen decision, message access, information, partner power, supports, privacy, safety, and outcomes.

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Document sensory-access evidence using direct reports, preferences, environmental measures, context, partner response, health scope, privacy, and denominators.

Clinician guide
Reassess sensory access after environment, equipment, or health changes using dated phases, access restoration, natural comparisons, and qualified review.

Clinician guide
Assess quiet-space and sensory-break access using selected messages, voluntary entry, privacy, partner availability, timing, unrestricted exit, fit, and outcomes.

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Assess smell, taste, and mealtime context using direct report, familiar foods, choice, feeding scope, nutrition access, culture, partner response, and outcomes.

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Assess movement and positioning access using chosen options, mobility, equipment, communication, safety restrictions, fatigue, pain, support, and task outcomes.

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Assess touch, clothing, and material access using chosen boundaries, consent, texture and fit, alternatives, skin and health context, partner response, and outcomes.

Clinician guide
Assess lighting and visual access using direct report, glare, flicker, contrast, vision and device information, chosen changes, access, and safe natural conditions.

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Assess sound and listening access using direct report, communication, sound context, hearing supports, chosen changes, partner response, and natural safe conditions.