The Purpose of the Challenging Behavior Support Team Is to Collaborate with AEA and LEA

Challenging Behavior Support Team

Grant Wood Area Education Agency

The Challenging Behavior Support Team collaborates with AEA and LEA teams for the purposes of assessing challenging behavior, developing effective intervention plans, providing the supports needed for school teams to implement individual plans effectively, and building capacity in the areas of assessment and intervention planning.

Prior to Our Involvement

If the student has autism, please make a request for consultation to your Autism Consultant if you have not done so

Building-based AEA staff has been involved in supporting the school team with collecting data to identify function and implementing function-based interventions.

A needs assessment has been completed by a regional behavior coach

Request for Consultation

Requests for consultation will be scheduled in the order received. Once a request for consultation and supporting documents have been received, the CBS Team will contact you to notify you of possible timelines for an initial team meeting. To request consultation for a student, please provide the following information:

Behavior Supportsrequest for consultation form

IEP or signed FIE

Current FBA and BIP (if developed)– NOTE: these documents must have been updated within two calendar years of the request for consultation

Additional observation and/or implementation data (if applicable)

Reports from AEA practitioners and/or outside agencies (with appropriate parental consent to release information)

Expectations for Collaboration

Due to the important role that AEA practitioners play in supporting LEA teams, the CBS Team prefers that requests for consultation are made by AEA building team members. Please consider the following:

If a request for services is received directly from an LEA team or a student’s parent/guardian, the CBST will recommend that the individual(s) contact their AEA team members prior to accepting the request for consultation.

The CBST expects at least one AEA practitioner from the referring team to participate for the duration of our involvement.

If new behaviors are identified and assessed, a re-evaluation will occur.

The meeting to provide recommendations will be an official IEP meeting. The special education teacher will be responsible for scheduling this meeting.

The CBST report will be uploaded to Web IEP by GWAEA staff. The FBA and BIP documents will be updated by LEA team to reflect new assessment data and any changes to the behavior plan.

The role of the CBST is to provide input to the IEP/FIE team. That is, we will provide recommendations and consultation, but decisions regarding program components, support decisions, and placement are ultimately made by the IEP team.

Services and Supports

While each request for services may be unique, it is important to note that our process will likely include interviewing staff who are familiar with the student, observing the student, and collecting data on the behavior(s) of concern prior to making formal recommendations to the team. Changing problem behavior is a process that begins with gathering information and ends with evaluating the effectiveness of an intervention. The CBST is available to provide collaboration and consultation in one or more of the following areas:

Conducting a functional behavior assessment (FBA), which may include:

Defining behaviors of concern

Determining appropriate data tools (e.g., ABC data)

Identifying additional assessments(e.g., preference, functional analysis, structural analysis)

Interpreting FBA results

Developing and implementing a behavior intervention plan (BIP), which may include:

Generating ideas for research-based intervention strategies for a BIP, based on FBA information

Determining if the appropriateness/necessity of specific components in a BIP

Developing a system to monitor the effectiveness of a BIP

Hands on training for AEA and LEA teams in implementing BIP strategies

Members of the Challenging Behavior Support Team include Amy Graber (), Kristi Miiller (), JakeVitense (), and Hannah Stokes ()