Positive Behaviour Support

Positive Behaviour Support:

Every support package is carefully planned and fully individualised, with client and staff safety, dignity, and quality of life at the centre. We follow a clear, evidence-based process that meets (and often exceeds) NDIS requirements:

• Functional Behaviour Assessment (FBA) – Comprehensive assessment using direct observation, record reviews, interviews, standardised tools, and data collection (including ABC data, scatterplots, and frequency/duration measures) to accurately identify the function(s) of behaviour and the variables maintaining it. This function-based understanding forms the foundation for all subsequent interim and comprehensive behaviour support plans, ensuring strategies are individualised, proactive, and fully aligned with the person’s needs and NDIS requirements.
• Comprehensive Assessments We Use:

  • QBAF (Questions About Behaivour Function)

  • FAST (Functional Assessment Screenting Tool)

  • MAS II (Motivational Assessment SCALE II)
  • ABAS-3 (Adaptive Behaviour Assessment System)
  • Proactive vs Reactive Aggression Questionaire
  • SDQ (Strenths & Difficulties Questionaire)
  • SIB-R (Scales of Independent Behaviour – Revised)
  • Repetitive Behaviour Scale – Revised
  • RAISD (Reinforcer Assessment for Individuals with Severe Disability)

  • Paired-Stimulus Preference Assessment, Multiple-Stimulus Without Replacement (MSWO), Free Operant

  • VB-MAPP
  • ADOS-3 (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule)
  • VINELAND
  • Y-BOCS-II (Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale – Second Edition)
  • Adaptive Behaviour Assessment
  • BASC-3 (Behavioural & Emotional Screening System)
  • CONNERS 
  • Problem Behaivour Questionnaire
  • Child Behaivour Check List
  • Adult Behaivour Check List
  • ABC Assessments
  • Direct Observations 
  • Indriect Interviews
  • Functional Analysis
  • Skills Assessment
  • Preference Assessment
  • Motivational Assessment
• Interim Behaviour Support Plans – Delivered within days of the initial referral when safety is an immediate concern. These short-term, easy-to-follow plans focus on the highest-risk behaviours, provide clear proactive and reactive strategies, and include any emergency procedures needed to keep the person and others safe while the full assessment is completed.
• Comprehensive Behaviour Support Plans – In-depth, person-centred documents (often 20–40 pages) that meet full NDIS specialist standards. They include detailed functional analysis, multi-element proactive strategies (visual supports, schedules, skill teaching programs), replacement behaviour training, crisis protocols, environmental modifications, and (only when required and authorised by the NDIS) carefully monitored restrictive practice fading plans.
• Training and Implementation Plans – Practical, step-by-step guides written specifically for the people who support the client every day (families, support workers, teachers). Delivered alongside hands-on training sessions (in-home, at school, or via video), role-play, competency checks, and plain-English resources so everyone feels confident and consistent when carrying out the plan.
• Restrictive Practices – If a plan is currently using any restrictive practice (seclusion, chemical, mechanical, environmental, or physical restraint), we complete the mandatory NDIS authoring requirements, lodge with the panel, and always include a detailed, data-driven fading/reduction plan with regular progress reviews.
• End-of-Plan and Progress Reports – Clear, evidence-based reports submitted to the NDIS (usually every 12 months or at funding end) with graphs, data summaries, outcomes achieved, recommendations for the next plan, and (where relevant) evidence that restrictive practices have been reduced or removed.
• Ongoing Monitoring, Data Review, and Plan Adjustments – Regular check-ins (monthly to quarterly depending on complexity), ongoing data collection and analysis, team meetings, and prompt updates to the plan whenever progress is made, new challenges arise, or funding changes occur – ensuring support stays effective and relevant over time.

Why Choose Connective Therapies

When you work with us, you’re not just getting another behaviour support provider – you’re partnering with a clinician who has walked the talk for over a decade in schools, hospitals, government crisis settings, and family homes, along with her persomnal lived experience with having a child with speical needs and complex behaviours.

What to expcet:

• Real specialisation in complex and high-risk presentations – autism, ADHD, intellectual disability, FASD, schizophrenia, personality disorders, trauma histories, and behaviours that many providers are unable to properly service.
• Plans and reports that are thorough, data driven, evidence based, NDIS-compliant first time, and actually practical for families and support workers to use every day.
• A genuine commitment to reducing and eliminating restrictive practices wherever possible, backed by years of fading plans.
• Crisis-ready, trauma-informed support from someone certified by the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) and experienced in real-world de-escalation and safety planning.
• Honest, compassionate collaboration – we listen to families, respect lived experience, and build solutions together.
• Most importantly, everything we do is grounded in the science of behaviour analysis (BCBA + Master of ABA), delivered with heart, and focused on keeping everyone safe while helping your loved one (or participant) live a bigger, calmer, and more connected life