Intervention services improve children’s functional skills and discourage problem behavior. Intervention services are outcome-based, therapeutic services delivered by a professional, including behavioral interventions and skill development activities. Intervention must be based upon well-known and widely regarded principles of evidence-based treatment (EBT). Intervention can be conducted in a child’s home, in community settings or at the DDA in specific situations.

Intervention is used to:

1. Develop Functional, Adaptive Skills. When goals to address skill development are identified on

the plan of service, the intervention must provide for the acquisition of functional skills such

as riding the bus, cooking, banking, dressing, keeping a schedule and community safety skills.

2. Diminish Maladaptive Behaviors. When goals to address maladaptive behavior are identified

on the plan, the intervention must include the development of replacement behavior/skills

rather than merely the elimination or suppression of maladaptive behavior that interferes with

the child’s overall general development, community and social participation.