Adaptive Behavior: Results in a reinforcing outcome or serves a specific purpose.

Anger Management: Problem solving strategies combined with behavior management techniques that focus on recognizing anger cues and triggers that escalate angry feelings.

Empathy: The ability to understand and be sensitive towards another person's situation, struggles, or feelings.

Functional Assessment: Also known as Functional Behavioral Assessment. The process of collecting information in order to develop and test hypothesis statements regarding the variables that maintain and predict problem behavior. Functional assessment strategies include indirect assessment methods, direct observation, and functional analysis.

Generalization: The use of a newly learned skill in a setting that is different than the setting in which the skill was initially learned.

Impulse Control: The ability to resist an internal drive or temptation to perform an act.

Inclusion: A school reform movement that involves interdisciplinary teams working together to support students with disabilities within typical classroom settings. Inclusionary classrooms promote an atmosphere of learning that is beneficial to all students.

Reinforcement: A stimulus that when presented immediately following a response increases the probability the response will occur again. Reinforcement may involve the presentation of a reward or removal of something unpleasant.

Student Assistance Team: A group of people from different perspectives or disciplines that join together to problem solve and develop educational and behavioral plans. Team members may include the student, parents or other family members, teachers, therapists, community members, job coaches, vocational rehabilitation counselors, and paraprofessionals.