Functional Assessment and Hypotheses Generation: This report should include the following information. Please attach all interview forms and other documents used in the creation of your assessment.
1. Operationalize the behavior of interest and write it in behavioral terms.
2. Conduct a brief functional assessment that includes the following
A. Interview of the teacher and/or parents of the student
i. Using the functional assessment interview form, interview the student’s teacher or parent. NOTE that this is a generic interview form, therefore all questions may not pertain to your student’s problem behavior. Skip questions that do not pertain to the problem behavior.
ii. If appropriate, interview the student using the student-directed functional assessment interview form.
3. Conduct a brief observation of the student engaging in the behavior of interest. Identify the behavior dimensions of interest. Determine how to record the behavior. Provide preliminary baseline data.
4. Develop summary statements for each major predictor and/or consequence (page 9 of Functional Assessment Interview form)
A. What are the setting events, immediate antecedents and maintaining consequences that appear to be influencing the behavior?
5. Identify socially appropriate alternative behaviors the student could perform to achieve the same results.
6. Develop hypotheses for the behavior
A. Develop overall hypothesis (es) of the function of the behavior based on your assessment.