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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?
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I'm glad no one is asking to do a Functional Behavior Assessment of your child. Yup, me too. I am not comfortable with them for my child. I am having my kid evaluated by a neuropsychologist, who comes recommended by a few friends, and whom I have interviewed and I like so far. She can give the school lots of recommendations and will also speak to the school if necessary. I am hopeful she will be helpful.
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Our school principal called me to ask my permission to have our DS tested by the behaviorist that specializes in autistic kids . Behavior analysis is heavily used with spectrum kids. Unless you live in a school district big enough to justify dedicating a specialist to the "other" cases most behaviorists will have a majority of their case load be autistic kids. Was that the behavior analyst calling you? Yes she did yesterday leaving a message on the phone . My husband called her back but DH left a message also that we're choosing our own therapist . Didnt sign the paper .
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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.
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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. Oh, okay, "BA" (for "behavior analyst") it is from now on. Just a matter of dropping the F, which is fine by me b/c less to type  Again, I just don't know ALL of the lingo, yet. Seems like it really isn't that big of a deal, really. And it seems like no one else was all that confused. Of course, my sincere apologies for such a mistake and potentially causing so much confusion. Thanks for being nice about it and not condescending - like I said, I am new to all of this but learning fast with help of people on here like yourself.
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So, what did you do? We are enjoying our first week home. My son has not complained of stomach pain or knee pain for the first time in months. He is back! My happy, carefree, bubbly, funny, bright boy is back! (I think about you a lot, since our boys are the same age, and your situation seem so similar.)
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So, what did you do? We are enjoying our first week home. My son has not complained of stomach pain or knee pain for the first time in months. He is back! My happy, carefree, bubbly, funny, bright boy is back! (I think about you a lot, since our boys are the same age, and your situation seem so similar.) Hello , we took him to a therapist . He looked at our son's communication card from school ( he used to work for school for 22 years i guess ) . Immediately he said that all this behavior problems really look like ADHD kid . I didn't say anything about him probably is gifted . I can't say he is yet because we haven't done any testing as far as the IQ test . Then he talked to our DS and when they got out , he said he thinks our DS is in the gifted range . Nothing has changed , the school just started with a private behavior chart , his job is to collect 17 initials from power up time , specials , math ,science , reading , and recess/lunch . The school is scheduling the 2nd week of April for the testing . PS : I was trying to send you a private message , not sure if it went through ?
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