The Competing Behavior Pathway and Behavior Support Planning

Building a behavior Support plan stems directly from the information gained from performing the FBA. A good behavior support plan assumes that the function or purpose was identified during the FBA and plans to teach and reinforce a school appropriate replacement behavior that accomplishes the same thing for the student and thus competes with the challenging behavior. The following tutorial describes how the information gained from the FBA can be used to select an appropriate replacement behavior, and design a support plan that allows it to “compete” with the challenging behavior.

Building Behavior Support Plans from the Competing Behavior Pathway

Below are examples of how the information gained from using the competing behavior pathway to build behavior support plans may be recorded on the Idaho State Department of Education BIP forms.

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