What exactly is Positive Behavior Support?
This excellent, reader-friendly guide to Positive Behavior Support is provided by Institute for Human Development at Northern Arizona University. A Spanish version is available at: www.nau.edu/ihd/positive/sumario.html

What are the components of Effective Behavioral Support?
This site offers information on a 3-tier model of behavior support: (1) school-wide, (2) small group, and (3) individual. It gives information on what all students need to be successful.

Positive behavior support and functional assessment
This digest from the ERIC system looks at the research on positive behavior support and school-wide behavior change, then briefly discussions functional assessment of young children.

What's the research say about school-wide behavioral support?
This issue of Research Connections in Special Education describes promising research in using positive behavioral supports to improve learning opportunities for students with disabilities.

Positive behavioral interventions and supports.
This article from LDOnline explains why PBIS is important and outlines key principles of practice.

More about PBS and its individualized approach to managing challenging behavior.
This What Works brief from the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning summarizes PBS and talks about how it works, factors that will limit its effectiveness, and whether it's really just "giving in" to the child. A Spanish version is available at: http://csefel.uiuc.edu/briefs/wwb10-sp.html

Tips for parents: How to get behavior supports into the IEP.
This guide, a collaboration between the Beach Center on Disabilities and the Center for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, contains a wealth of suggestions for parents.

Need training materials for parents on positive behavioral interventions?
These training materials, subtitled Parents Need to Know, include 37 overheads and a curriculum for trainers. The set is available in Spanish as well and on CD-ROM.

There's a center focusing exclusively on school-wide positive behavioral support.
The Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports is funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to provide information, training, support, and guidance to the nation on addressing behavior problems in research-based and effective ways. They offer information in English and in Spanish.

Check out this one-stop-shop on behavior! This site has info for both families and teachers on FBAs, behavior intervention plans, bullying, and discipline issues.