Making Communication Count: Functional Communication & Positive Behaviour Support

Training

Schedule

Self-paced

Duration

2 hours

Cost

199

This course explores how Positive Behaviour Support and functional communication work together to reduce behaviours of concern.

You’ll examine how communication demands, skills, and opportunities shape behaviour, and learn practical ways to teach meaningful functional communication responses.

We’ll also focus on creating environments that support safety, autonomy, and genuine engagement.

This course builds practitioners’ capability to understand the relationship between communication and behaviour, and to integrate functional communication within a Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) framework.

Course content will:

discuss the role of functional communication within PBS and how it reduces behaviours of concern
explore environmental and instructional strategies that make communication more accessible
highlight how to design plans that create consistent opportunities for connection, choice, and agency
provide practical tools practitioners can implement immediately in homes, schools, and community settings

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Suitable for:

Designed for behaviour support practitioners, students, and allied health professionals who want to strengthen their practice around communication-based interventions and improve behavioural outcomes in affirming ways.

Behaviour support practitioners,
Teachers
Allied health practitioners
Support workers

What you’ll learn:

Understand how communication demands, opportunities, and supports influence behaviours of concern.
Identify communication barriers and work collaboratively with speech pathologists within scope.
Teach meaningful, low-effort functional communication responses that match the person’s goals, abilities, and context.
Embed communication supports into everyday routines to promote safety, autonomy, and engagement.
Align communication-based interventions with PBS values, legislation, and the Capability Framework.

What you'll gain:

Understand that behaviours happen for a reason and serve a purpose
Assess the person’s abilities and needs
Collaborate and consult as required to develop strategies
Develop strategies that aim to increase the person’s skills, including communication and the interaction skills of communication partners
2 Continuing Education Units (BCBA CEU’s) / Continuing Professional Development Units (CPD’s)

Ready to turn knowledge into positive action?

Discover a world of transformative Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) training with our engaging and interactive online courses. You’ll learn specialised skills and strategies that you can immediately put into action.

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Meet your presenter

Kristin Bayley

Advanced/Specialist Behaviour Support Practitioner
Fieldwork/Behaviour Support Supervisor
Co-Director of Launch Supervision

MS, MSLP, BCBA, CPSP, CBA, Specialist Behaviour Support Practitioner

Advanced/Specialist Behaviour Support Practitioner
Fieldwork/Behaviour Support Supervisor
Kristin launched her career in behaviour analysis in 1998, working with adolescents in residential settings and preschool children in home-based programs. After earning her Master’s in Applied Behaviour Analysis, she moved to London, becoming a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst in 2003.

By 2007, Kristin relocated to Sydney, completing her Masters in Speech and Language Pathology at Macquarie University while raising two children.

In 2016, she founded To the Moon & Back, a multidisciplinary clinic offering speech therapy, behaviour therapy, and behaviour support.