Stop That Seemingly Senseless Behavior: FBA-Based Interventions for People with Autism helps parents and adults better understand Autism and the erratic behavior that sometimes comes with it; like hitting, screaming or repetitive questioning. Offers proven strategies that quickly reduce problem behaviors.

Explains how to conduct a functional behavior assessment (FBA) and develop an effective behavior intervention plan to stop undesirable behaviors. Included outline covers:

• Review of an FBA
• How behavior is learned and unlearned
• Preventing challenging behavior
• Replacement behaviors
• Reinforcement techniques
• Pros and cons of reinforcement vs. punishment
• Interventions tailored to the function of the problem behavior
• Collecting and graphing data
• Writing behavior intervention plans
• Troubleshooting
• Positive Behavior Supports

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Plans: An Overview
Chapter 2 How are Behaviors Unlearned?
Chapter 3 Beating the Behavior to the Punch: Using Antecedent Strategies to Decrease a Behavior
Chapter 4 What Can He Do Instead? Building Replacement Skills for Problem Behaviors
Chapter 5 Consequence-based Strategies
Chapter 6 Sensible Interventions for Every Function
Chapter 7 Managing Special Considerations
Chapter 8 Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Behavior Plan
Chapter 9 Writing Up Your Behavior Intervention Plan
Chapter 10 Frequently Asked Questions
Chapter 11 The Top Ten Strategies to Prevent Challenging Behavior

Includes 152 pages, suggestions and advice for dealing with outbursts, case studies and "Keep it Simple" tips, plus forms, figures and graphs.