Just the facts, ma’am. That’s the attitude you need to have when you’re collecting antecedent behavior consequence data in a functional behavior assessment. Like I talked about last week, you want to keep your emotions out of it. In this episode, I want to get a little more specific and follow up with a couple more things to think about when taking ABC data, including a strategy to help you amend some of them if your classroom staff have difficulty keeping emotions out of it.

1:36​ - What you can do if you think you know the function of the student’s behavior

3:01 - Why making assumptions about the behavior data you gather can backfire

5:40 - Examples of how underlying causes of behavior can be different in the same scenario

7:16 - The mistake to avoid with your factual observations after taking the data

8:57 - One thing that can help if classroom staff struggle with sticking to the facts

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