National Survey of State Policies and Practices in Behavior Support

2013

David A. Rotholz
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Providing effective behavioral supports to decrease challenging behavior and replace it with appropriate alternative skills is essential to meeting the needs of many individuals with ID/DD. It is also necessary for fulfilling the requirements of Medicaid-funded individual support plans and is important for moral, ethical, and societal reasons. Unfortunately there is no national standard for behavioral support practices or source of information on the status of behavior support policies, practices, and services for adults with ID/DD at the either state or national levels. The collection of comprehensive data on state behavior support definitions, provider qualifications, training and oversight requirements is a necessary starting point for the development of plans to address needed policy and practice changes. This survey is the first national assessment of state policies and practices regarding the definition and delivery of behavior support services to people with ID/DD.

Behavior Supports, Postive Behavior Support, Applied Behavior Analysis, State Policy

Conference presentations and posters presented

Professionals, Policymakers, Students

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