Children and adolescents with moderate and severe disabilities often have communication challenges that lead them to use problem behavior to convey their desire

Problem behaviors often compound the already difficult task of improving the lives of persons with severe disabilities. This important volume, representing the

Based on extensive field-testing and the dual principles that problem behavior often serves a purpose for the individual displaying it and that intervention sho

Offers a review of current knowledge in the field of functional assessment of behavior, and discusses the use of such data in designing behavioral support progr