Originally Posted by ElizabethN
Originally Posted by marytheres
I refer to the people that do FBA as Functional Behavioral Assessors (FBAs for short) - just my shorthand... but I realize it is an assessment done by behaviorists (well at our school it is done by "behaviorists") and I do not care for their philosophy --- that's just me, but I am entitled to my opinion ...

OK - that's just a pretty confusing usage when the same acronym is also in the thread meaning something else, and in fact even in your own post ("I got clarificatiob that they are not asking to do and are not interested in doing an FBA on my child, thank goodness.")

I'm glad no one is asking to do a Functional Behavior Assessment of your child.

Okay so is this offensive or something? I am very sorry if it calling a person who does Functional Behavior Assessments a "Functional Behavioral Assessor" I should know better, but I don't. I am quite new to this world and always just referred to them as assessors - hence the acronym. I did not realize that this would upset or offend anyone. What should I call them? Should I go back and change all of my posts?

Last edited by marytheres; 03/22/13 12:17 PM.