Family guide
What if the FCT Response Is Harder Than the Target Behavior?
Learn how FCT response effort affects speed, access, reliability, prompting, partner recognition, real-setting use, and the choice of an alternative response.
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Family guide
Can Families Help Choose the FCT Communication Response?
Learn how to choose an FCT communication response using client choice, function evidence, effort, recognizability, AAC access, partner input, and review.
Family guide
How Should an FBA Hypothesis Change After Treatment Data?
Learn how to update an FBA hypothesis using predictions, integrity, target and replacement outcomes, side effects, context, client experience, and plan versions.
Family guide
Can a Family Decline a Functional Analysis?
Learn how a family may decline functional analysis through authorized consent, client assent, accessible explanation, alternatives, and continued safety planning.
Family guide
Does Every FBA Require a Functional Analysis?
Learn why an FBA may or may not include functional analysis and how families can review decision value, risk, feasibility, competence, consent, and alternatives.
Family guide
What Happens if the Behavior Does Not Occur During an FBA?
Learn what behavior absent during FBA may mean, including limited opportunities, changed supports, measurement sensitivity, uncertainty, and safe next steps.
Family guide
Can Families Ask to See the FBA Observation Plan?
Learn what an FBA observation plan should explain about targets, settings, opportunities, observers, privacy, access, safety, consent, data, and changes.
Family guide
When Should Health Concerns Pause or Redirect an FBA?
Learn when health concerns during FBA require safety action, medical referral, changed observation, documented supports, and qualified resumption decisions.
Family guide
Can Client Communication Change an FBA Hypothesis?
Learn how client communication can change an FBA hypothesis through direct accessible input, AAC, assent and dissent, pain or sensory reports, and evidence review.
Family guide
What if FBA Findings Differ Across Settings?
Learn how to compare FBA findings across settings using matched definitions, opportunities, supports, partners, consequences, raw counts, and separate results.
Family guide
Can an FBA Rely Only on a Caregiver Interview?
Learn what a caregiver interview contributes to an FBA and how client input, observation, records, health, access, and uncertainty sharpen conclusions.
Family guide
Can Families Ask Which Behavior Definition an FBA Uses?
Learn how an FBA behavior definition uses observable boundaries, examples, nonexamples, measurement units, context, client language, and version control.
