Assessments

At Sage Behavior Services, we conduct comprehensive, individualized assessments to better understand your child’s strengths, needs, preferences, and support requirements. These assessments help to develop meaningful, developmentally appropriate goals and to determine recommended service levels.

Assessments are often the first step in accessing services through funding sources such as regional centers, insurance providers, and school districts.

Our assessment process is collaborative, family-centered, and tailored to each child. Activities may include:

• Direct observation of your child across natural environments (e.g., home, school, and/or community settings)
• Interviews with parents, caregivers, educators, and other professionals who know the child well
• Review of previous evaluations, reports, and relevant records
• Data collection and analysis using descriptive assessments and structured data tools
• Video recording (with informed consent) to document skill levels and patterns of behavior
• A variety of Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) procedures to better understand the purpose or function of behaviors that may be interfering with learning or daily living
• Systematic analysis of environmental variables (i.e., functional analysis)
• Identification of meaningful, socially significant goals in collaboration with caregivers
• Preference assessments
• Administration of criterion-based and/or norm-referenced skills assessments

Following the assessment process, Sage Behavior Services then provides a comprehensive written report that includes:

• A summary of findings
• Individualized goals focused on functional communication, independence, social development, and daily living skills
• A behavior plan which includes supportive, proactive strategies to build important, functional behaviors and skills as well as guidance for responding safely and effectively to behaviors that may pose challenges
• Recommendations for service type, intensity, and setting