Building Inclusive School Cultures Using School-wide PBS: Designing Effective Individual Support Systems for Students with Significant Disabilities

Abstract

School-wide positive behavior support (SWPBS) is a systematic and effective approach for improving student behavior broadly across school environments. SWPBS includes databased strategies for supporting all students along a continuum of need and intensity based on a three-tiered model of prevention. Students with the most significant behavioral challenges are provided with assessment-based, individualized supports. To date, considerable evaluation research has demonstrated the benefits of SWPBS, documenting behavioral improvements using the whole school as the unit of analysis. Notably less evaluation research has focused on effects of SWPBS on the behavior of individual students with the most significant disabilities. In this