Fix the environment, NOT the Flower!
When a flower doesn’t bloom… You fix the environment in which it grows, NOT the Flower!
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When a flower doesn’t bloom… You fix the environment in which it grows, NOT the Flower!
“Our job is not to fix people, but to design effective environments”
‘Function based’, instead of ‘behaviour based’, interventions. This cognitive shift is central to the success of PBS.
“People do not engage in self-injury [or] aggression…solely because they have…developmental disabilities. There is logic to their behaviour, and functional assessment is an attempt to
“Positive approaches is an ongoing process of learning about the best in people and supporting them through the worst“
“We ask people who by definition have the fewest adaptive abilities to make the most adaptations all the time”
“You should not propose to reduce a problem behavior without also identifying alternative, desired behaviors that the person should perform instead of the problem behavior”
