Parents continue to be excellent informants in identifying specific behaviors and antecedents and possible reinforcers. The positive replacement behaviors must be equally explicit. The new or different teaching techniques to be employed must be spelled out as well as how the environment will be changed and how the reinforcers will maintain the positive replacement behaviors. Our recommendations should include clear methods for recording and evaluating the interventions. Here, again, the overlap between assessment and consultation and analysis of effectiveness is clear.
Functional assessments fold into ongoing consultation.
Consultation should be noted as a related service, part of the child's IEP indirect services. The most difficult part of designing an effective IEP is concretely determining the who, what, where and when of implementation and measurement. Interagency collaborative models can tax one's skill and may require written interagency agreements. Measurement is critical and requires teamwork that includes teachers and paraprofessionals as well as parents. Someone, preferably the school psychologist, should serve as the manager of such behavioral intervention strategies.