OAR 411-304-0120
Definitions and Acronyms
(1)
“ADL” means “activities of daily living”.(2)
“Baseline Behavior” means the standard measurement of an individual’s state of behavior prior to behavior supports.(a)
An individual’s baseline behavior is measured by the duration, frequency, intensity, and severity of the individual’s behavior over an established period of time prior to the implementation of an initial or revised Positive Behavior Support Plan.(b)
An individual’s baseline behavior is used as a reference point to identify the effectiveness of behavior supports.(3)
“Behavior Data” means the information gathered for the purposes of recording the following:(a)
Baseline behavior.(b)
Duration, frequency, intensity, and severity of challenging behavior.(c)
Behavior supports.(d)
Other information and observations critical to the analysis of the effectiveness of a Positive Behavior Support Plan and Functional Behavior Assessment.(4)
“Behavior Data Collection System” means the methodology specified within a Positive Behavior Support Plan directing the process for recording observations, interventions, and other support provision information critical to the analysis of the effectiveness of the Positive Behavior Support Plan.(5)
“Behavior Professional” means a behavior consultant who meets the qualifications in OAR 411-304-0170 (Qualifications and Standards for Behavior Professionals) and delivers the professional behavior services described in OAR 411-304-0140 (Professional Behavior Services and Limitations).(6)
“Behavior Supports” means the emergency crisis strategy, proactive strategy, reactive strategy, and recovery strategy, as defined in this rule, included in a Positive Behavior Support Plan or Temporary Emergency Safety Plan and delivered by a designated person to assist an individual with challenging behavior.(7)
“Challenging Behavior” means a behavior due to an individual’s disability preventing the individual from accomplishing ADLs, IADLs, and health-related tasks, or threatening the health and safety of the individual or others.(8)
“Designated Person” means the person who implements the behavior supports identified in an individual’s Positive Behavior Support Plan. An individual’s designated person may include, but is not limited to, an individual’s parent, family member, primary caregiver, or service provider.(9)
“Emergency Crisis Strategy” means the behavior supports used when an individual is in imminent danger of injuring self or others.(10)
“FBA” means “Functional Behavior Assessment”.(11)
“Functional Alternative Behavior” means a replacement behavior to an identified challenging behavior that achieves the same outcome as the challenging behavior.(12)
“Functional Behavior Assessment” means the document written by a behavior professional in accordance with OAR 411-304-0150 (Professional Behavior Service Planning) that describes an individual’s challenging behavior and the underlying causes or functions of the challenging behavior.(13)
“HIPAA” means the “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act”.(14)
“IADL” means “instrumental activities of daily living.”(15)
“ISP” means “Individual Support Plan”.(16)
“OCCS” means “Office of Client and Community Services”.(17)
“ODDS” means “Office of Developmental Disabilities Services”.(18)
“OSIPM” means “Oregon Supplemental Income Program-Medical”.(19)
“PBSP” means “Positive Behavior Support Plan”.(20)
“Physical Restraint” means any manual method or physical or mechanical device, material, or equipment attached to or adjacent to an individual’s body that the individual cannot remove easily, which restricts freedom of movement or normal access of the individual to the individual’s body. Any manual method includes physically restraining an individual by manually holding the individual in place.(21)
“Positive Behavior Support Plan” means the document written by a behavior professional in accordance with OAR 411-304-0150 (Professional Behavior Service Planning) that describes behavior supports used to reduce the frequency or intensity of an individual’s challenging behavior.(22)
“Positive Behavior Support Services” mean the professional behavior services and behavior supports, provided to assist an individual with challenging behaviors. Positive behavior support services are available through the Community First Choice state plan.(23)
“Positive Behavior Theory and Practice” means a proactive approach to behavior supports that:(a)
Is evidence-based and emphasizes the development of functional alternative behaviors.(b)
Uses the least intrusive intervention possible.(c)
Includes safeguards to ensure abusive, punishing, or demeaning behavior supports are never used.(d)
Evaluates the effectiveness of behavior supports based on behavior data.(24)
“Proactive Strategy” means the behavior supports used to prevent a challenging behavior from occurring.(25)
“Professional Behavior Services” mean the positive behavior support services delivered by a behavior professional as described in OAR 411-304-0140 (Professional Behavior Services and Limitations).(26)
“Reactive Strategy” means the behavior supports used to respond to an individual’s escalating behavior, including changes in the duration, frequency, intensity, and severity of the behavior. A reactive strategy redirects, problem solves, and otherwise diminishes the escalation of behavior that requires an emergency crisis strategy.(27)
“Recovery Strategy” means the behavior supports used to assist an individual to reintegrate into their daily routine after the use of an emergency crisis strategy. The term “recovery strategy” is also referred to as “post-crisis” or “stabilization strategies”.(28)
“Safeguarding Equipment” means a device that meets the definition of a “physical restraint” in this rule, requires an individually-based limitation consistent with OAR 411-415-0070 (Service Planning), and is used to:(a)
Maintain body position;(b)
Provide proper balance; or(c)
Protect an individual from injury, symptoms of a medical condition, or harm from a challenging behavior.(29)
“Safeguarding Intervention” means a manual physical restraint, applied by a designated person certified to use the safeguarding intervention according to OAR 411-304-0160 (Safeguarding Interventions), that:(a)
Has been authored by a behavior professional as an emergency crisis strategy within a Positive Behavior Support Plan;(b)
Has been consented to through the individually-based limitation process consistent with OAR 411-415-0070 (Service Planning); and(c)
Is used as an emergency crisis strategy to protect an individual from:(A)
Harming themselves;(B)
Harming others; or(C)
When the individual’s behavior is likely to lead to intervention by law enforcement.(30)
“Telecommunications Technology” means secure, two-way, real time interactive communication strategies that may substitute for face-to-face interactions only during the delivery of professional behavior services as described in OAR 411-304-0140 (Professional Behavior Services and Limitations).(31)
“Temporary Emergency Safety Plan” means a document outlining the behavior supports and environment thought by a behavior professional to be necessary to support an individual exhibiting challenging behavior prior to the completion of a Functional Behavior Assessment and Positive Behavior Support Plan.(32)
“TESP” means “Temporary Emergency Safety Plan”.(33)
“These Rules” mean the rules in OAR chapter 411, division 304.(34)
“Training” means the direction, guidance, and instruction provided by a behavior professional to a designated person including, but not limited to, the following:(a)
Demonstrating behavior supports.(b)
Observing the delivery of a specific behavior support or safeguarding intervention strategy.(c)
Providing structured examples and scenarios.
Source:
Rule 411-304-0120 — Definitions and Acronyms, https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=411-304-0120.