I. What is Challenging Behavior?

II. Functional Behavior Assessment

III. Overview of Intervention Strategies

IV. Communicative Alternatives

V. Implementing Antecedent-Based Strategies

Tip Sheets: Positive Ways of Intervening with Challenging Behavior

The tip sheets listed below have been developed to assist teachers and parents in providing the best possible educational opportunities to children who engage in challenging behavior. All tip sheets will open as a PDF.

• Challenging Behavior
• Choice-making
• Collaboration
• Communicative Alternatives
• Functional Behavior Assessment
• High Probability Requesting

• Preferred Item as a Distractor
• Rejecting
• Request a Break
• Request Assistance
• Tolerance for Delay

Other Tip Sheets
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• Contingency Contracting
  
• Differential Reinforcement
• Maintenance and Generalization
• Self-Monitoring

• Shaping
• Token Economies
• Glossary