Originally Posted by marytheres
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?


It's not that it's offensive at all, and I have no intention of asking you to revise your posts. What it is is confusing. I don't think anyone calls themselves a "Functional Behavior Assessor" anyway - "Behavior Assessor" makes sense (although I think Behavior Analyst would be more common), but FBA is sort of a weird term to use referring to a person. It's also weird to use to refer to a person in a thread where there is active discussion going on about Functional Behavior Assessments and how they affect our kids. If I came into a thread here and started talking about the Wang Information Services Corporation by its acronym in a discussion of IQ testing, it would also be confusing, even if it were perfectly OK in another context.