Selecting Interventions Guide
BIP Guide Proactive Strategies
& Template Strategies that PREVENT the challenging behavior
Altering the Environment
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First, Then
Easy, Easy, Hard
Providing Choices
Goal A Better Way to Say "No"
Feel inspired and prepared to create an effective,
individualized behavior plan! Strategies that TEACH the replacement behavior
How Building Better Behaviors
Shaping
In our Selecting Interventions Guide, we’ve organized the
strategies found within this book into the four essential Modeling
components of a Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP). A BIP Teaching to Request
must include at least one strategy from each of these
sections, but the choices are up to you!
Reactive Strategies
Context
Learners who engage in behaviors that cause harm to Strategies for when the CHALLENGING behavior occurs
themselves or others or impede learning may benefit from
a BIP. These behavior plans are developed by a BCBA or a Tell, Show, Help
Behavior Specialist as means of guiding the team (school
Extinction + Redirection
and family) in how to best support their learner.
Blocking Unsafe Behaviors
Instructions Managing Self-injurious Behaviors
1. A BCBA or Behavior Specialist should complete a
Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) to determine
the target behavior, its function, an appropriate Strategies for when the REPLACEMENT behavior occurs
replacement behavior, and baseline data.
2. Use our visual to help guide your BIP decisions. Token Boards
Note that this is not an exhaustive list of all behavior
3 Reward Options
interventions; however, these are the ones we’ve
chosen to feature in this book due to their Check-in, Check-out
versatility, ease of use, and effectiveness. Individual Points Plan
3. Fill out the BIP template with your chosen
strategies! Describe what this strategy should look
like for this specific learner.
Behavior Intervention Plan
Goal Summary
Hypothesized function of behavior:
Baseline data of challenging behavior: occurrences per hour / per day
Behavior reduction goal: Learner will reduce rates of to occurrences per day /
hour across days of consecutive data.
Replacement behavior goal: When , learner will ,
in % of opportunities across days of consecutive data.
Baseline data for replacement behavior: opportunities
Recommendations for Behavior Interventions
Proactive (Antecedent) Strategies:
Reactive (Consequence) Strategies:
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