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