Stone Soup Group FAS/PBS Evaluation

2005

This project has been developed to enhance access to Positive Behavioral Supports as a behavioral intervention for Alaskan children who experience Fetal Alcohol Specturm Disorders (FASD). Between two and five teams of professioanls and family members, at eight sites across Alaska, will receive training in Positive Behavioral Support strategies. Teams will learn how to assess challenging behavior and determine its communicative function; modify the child's environment to reduce the curcumstances which can trigger behavior; develop effective, non-aversive strategies for reducing the occurrence of the behavior; teach more socially appropriate replacement behaviors and eliminate maintaining outcomes for the behavior. A systematic evaluation of the PBS process will determine the effectiveness of PBS as an empirically validated intervention for use with children who experience FASD.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Positive Behavior Support, Evaluation

Training Trainees, Performing Research or Evaluation, Developing & Disseminating Information

Quality Assurance, Health-Related Activities, Quality of Life

Family Members/Caregivers

Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Disadvantaged Circumstances, Geographic Areas, Rural/Remote, Specific Groups

State

N/A