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In other words, functional behavioral assessment looks beyond the overt topography of the behavior, and focuses, instead, upon identifying biological, social, affective, and environmental factors that initiate, sustain, or end the behavior in question.
Functional behavior assessment is based upon the following assumptions: -challenging behaviors do not occur in a vacuum; there is a reason for their occurrence. -behaviors occur in response to an identifiable stimuli (event) -behaviors are governed (weakened or strengthened) by the consequences that follow them.