Using Functional Communication: Training to Replace Challenging Behavior



The What Works Brief Training Kits help train early care providers on children’s social and emotional development. This kit may help in-service and pre-service providers develop activities and communication skills to address children’s challenging behavior. It provides helpful tips and contains participant handouts, activity ideas, and training evaluation tools. To read PDF files, get here.

Using Functional Communication Training to Replace Challenging Behavior The following kit is based on one What Works Brief and contains the following items: Presenter’s PowerPoint note pages Participant handouts Activity ideas Pre-training survey Demographic form Training evaluation and certificate Functional behavioral assessment is used to identify the purpose of the child’s challenging behavior. Some purposes for challenging behavior are to get attention, to escape from an activity, or to avoid sharing. Challenging behaviors include hitting, scratching, screaming, taking toys away from others, and failing to make eye contact. Examples of replacement behaviors include using words to request or comment, raising one’s hand to ask a question, and signing "more" to access materials. Full text» [PDF, 2.15MB]

Using Functional Communication: Training to Replace Challenging Behavior. What Works Training Kit #11. Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning. 2008. English.