To map person chosen places activities roles and relationships, ask Farid which settings, activities, contributions, people, timing, frequency, and participation forms matter now. Verify that each option is real and accessible. Record interest, uncertainty, decline, privacy, and desired support separately. The map should guide actual opportunities rather than fill a generic community calendar or substitute staff preferences for Farid's priorities.
Invite Farid's own possibilities
Start with places, roles, people, traditions, interests, and routines Farid names. Add examples as optional prompts and record whether Farid selected them.
Map roles as well as destinations
Distinguish visitor, learner, member, volunteer, contributor, organizer, customer, artist, teammate, audience member, neighbor, or another role Farid values.
Preserve relationship choices
Record who Farid wants to meet, maintain contact with, avoid, or know privately. A location can support or interfere with those relationships.
Verify real availability
Check hours, membership, cost, waitlist, transportation, accessibility, communication, entry rules, and role openings before presenting an option as available.
Version changing priorities
Date every choice and preserve changed or declined options without using them as repeated teaching targets. A later choice creates a new version.
Build Farid's person-chosen participation map
Create one versioned record for the neighborhood garden collective. Include Farid's chosen activity, place, role, people, participation forms, communication, transportation, schedule, cost, environmental access, supports, partner response, privacy, health and safety routes, eligible opportunities, person-rated experience, invalidity, missingness, correction, action owner, and reassessment trigger. Store purpose-needed information with role-limited access. Keep preference, current priority, availability, eligibility, access, chosen role, relationship, and actual experience distinct. Record the source and date for every external constraint.
Validate Farid's evidence
Reproduce 20 experiences: eight current priorities, five later, four declined, three need information; among eight priorities, six available and two blocked.
Connect Farid's evidence to an action
The collective offers Farid six current opportunities and repairs the schedule and role description for two others. The remaining options stay in their chosen status without repeated prompting.
Work through Farid's example
Farid identifies 20 possible garden experiences. Eight are current priorities, five are interesting for later, four are declined, and three need more information. Of the eight priorities, six are currently available and two lack a workable schedule or role. Preserve every planned and eligible opportunity, chosen participation form, access version, support, partner response, unavailable event, correction, unresolved item, and experience rating. This fictional example demonstrates one assessment control. It supplies no diagnosis, treatment effect, ADA result, Medicaid eligibility, HCBS compliance finding, safety clearance, coverage result, or outcome guarantee for Farid.
Address Farid's main interpretation risk
Listing all 20 as goals would include declined and undecided options. Reporting eight available interests would ignore two system barriers. Interest, availability, and access require separate fields. Review selection, access, transport, cost, schedule, communication, environment, partner availability, role quality, relationships, privacy, health, safety, person priorities, missingness, and design strength separately. Attendance, duration, eye contact, calm appearance, task completion, unsupported independence, staff approval, or contact counts cannot establish participation, belonging, consent, safety, or quality.
Keep Farid's clinical scope explicit
For Farid's person-chosen participation map, the CASP public summary provides high-level ABA behavioral-health-treatment scope for autistic people. The current BACB Ethics Code addresses competence, client involvement, consent and assent when applicable, assessment, risk, data, documentation, confidentiality, and evaluation for covered people. The BACB outline is examination content. These sources do not establish a universal community goal, legal entitlement, funding, emergency authority, or permission to replace Farid's priorities with staff preference.
Protect communication across Farid's community route
ASHA's AAC portal says AAC users should always have access to their tools or devices. A 2026 systematic review of AAC research for autistic adults and children found heavy emphasis on requesting and variable study quality and generalization evidence. Farid's assessment should preserve communication during travel, arrival, participation, relationships, privacy, breaks, refusal, repair, pain, and emergencies rather than measuring only requests in a teaching session.
Keep Farid's participation person-directed
The federal Administration for Community Living describes consumer control through person-centered planning, supported decision-making, and accessible transportation, with individual preferences and needs driving community supports. This broad public framework supports asking what Farid values and which access conditions help. It is not an ABA protocol, payer rule, or promise that a particular resource exists.
Scope community-integration law for Farid
The Justice Department's community-integration page explains the ADA Title II integration mandate for state and local government disability services and the conditions described in Olmstead. Its effective-communication guidance covers relevant Title II and Title III duties and asks entities to consider communication nature, length, complexity, context, and usual method. Applicability, reasonable modification, fundamental alteration, and remedy questions require qualified legal or access review; Farid's clinical assessment cannot decide them.
Use CMS community sources within their program scope
CMS's HCBS community-integration FAQ discusses person-chosen interests, routines, relationships, transportation, natural supports, staffing, and annual plan review for Medicaid HCBS settings. The HCBS CAHPS survey page describes a cross-disability experience survey for adults in state Medicaid HCBS programs covering services, communication, choice, transportation, safety, inclusion, and empowerment. These sources offer useful constructs for Farid; they do not govern every ABA service or substitute for the exact state program, payer, measure manual, or individual plan.
Preserve Farid's urgent route
For danger or a medical emergency in the United States, SAMHSA directs people to call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room. The person-chosen participation map should identify current emergency, medical, crisis, protective, and mandated-reporting routes for the actual setting. Routine data collection, payer contact, supervisor approval, or a planned session should never delay immediate safety action.
Choose Farid's next bounded action
Farid can add, remove, defer, or privatize an option. Review occurs on Farid's request or when availability, relationships, transport, cost, access, or interests change. Record the qualified owner, evidence, effective date, activity and role version, access and support arrangement, privacy and safety route, implementation check, accessible explanation, disagreement or complaint path, and reassessment trigger. Preserve earlier evidence when the context changes.
Close Farid's assessment
Review the person-chosen participation map with Farid, the qualified clinician, chosen supporters, community partners, access owners, and specialists named in the manifest. Confirm that chosen participation, physical presence, communication, access, support, partner behavior, clinical judgment, legal or payer action, safety, and person-rated experience remain distinct; every denominator is reproducible; AAC, privacy, basic needs, prescribed care, refusal, break, and safe exit remain protected; urgent needs received action; and conclusions stay bounded to sampled opportunities. Keep this page draft and noindex until every required review is complete.
Related resources
- How to Assess Transportation, Scheduling, Cost, and Environmental Access
- How to Define a Community-Participation Assessment Question
- How to Assess Communication Access During Community Participation
- How to Document Community-Participation Evidence and Limits
Sources
- Council of Autism Service Providers, ABA Practice Guidelines Version 3.0 public summary
- Behavior Analyst Certification Board, Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts
- Behavior Analyst Certification Board, BCBA Test Content Outline, 6th edition
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Mifsud and colleagues, Systematic Review of AAC for Autistic Adults and Children
- Administration for Community Living, Consumer Choice and Control
- U.S. Department of Justice, Community Integration
- U.S. Department of Justice, ADA Requirements: Effective Communication
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, HCBS Community Integration FAQ
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CAHPS Home and Community-Based Services Survey
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Find Support in a Crisis