ABC Behaviour Tracker
A simple ABC behaviour tracker for parents and carers. Log antecedents, behaviours, consequences, meltdowns, self-injury, triggers, severity, duration and what helped.
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Log difficult moments, spot patterns, and understand what may be changing.
Behaviour Tracker is a simple ABC behaviour tracker for parents and carers. It helps you record difficult behaviour incidents quickly, then review patterns over time.
Log what happened, what came before it, what seemed to help afterwards, and whether patterns are changing. Insights can help you see trends in frequency, severity, duration, and common routines — without turning family life into paperwork.
Why we built it
When a child is distressed, it can be hard to remember the details later.
What happened just before? How long did it last? What helped? Was this worse than last week, or just more memorable because it was hard?
Behaviour Tracker gives families a simple way to capture the important details while they are still fresh, so patterns are easier to notice over time.
A simple ABC behaviour tracker for parents
Behaviour Tracker is built around the ABC model: Antecedent, Behaviour and Consequence.
Instead of trying to remember everything later, you can quickly log what happened before an incident, what behaviour you saw, what happened afterwards, and what seemed to help.
This makes it easier to spot repeated triggers, prepare for conversations with school or professionals, and understand whether patterns are changing over time.
What you can track
- Meltdowns and self-injurious behaviour
- Triggers and antecedents
- Early warning signs
- Severity and duration
- Location and time of day
- What helped
- Notes for home, school, or professionals
Built around Antecedent, Behaviour and Consequence
ABC means Antecedent, Behaviour, Consequence.
In everyday language:
- Antecedent: what was happening just before
- Behaviour: what you saw
- Consequence: what happened afterwards, including what seemed to help
Behaviour Tracker uses this structure because it is a clear way to organise observations. It does not assess your child or decide what a behaviour means. It simply helps you keep notes in a consistent format.
Insights that are actually useful
The goal is not to collect endless data. It is to make useful patterns easier to see.
Behaviour Tracker can show weekly and monthly trends, common antecedents, severity, duration, and patterns over time. You can also add common situations, such as morning dressing, waiting for dinner, bedtime, or leaving the house, and estimate how often they usually happen.
That helps compare incidents with routine frequency.
For example, 3 incidents in a week may mean something very different if the routine happened 3 times or 30 times.
These insights can help you prepare for tricky parts of the day and explain what you are noticing without relying on memory alone.
Designed for real family life
Behaviour Tracker is built for quick logging, not perfect record keeping.
It supports separate child profiles, saved history, editable logs, severity and duration tracking, common situations, routine frequency estimates, and notes you can write in your own words.
You can also export logs and summaries to help prepare for conversations with family members, carers, schools, therapists, or behaviour specialists.
The design keeps the information practical and private, with no separate Steady Neuro account system for behaviour logs.
Not a replacement for professional support
Behaviour Tracker does not diagnose, treat, or replace advice from a qualified professional. If your child is at risk of harm, seek urgent support from local emergency or health services.
It can help organise observations and patterns, but it is not a medical device, clinical assessment, safeguarding tool, or behaviour support plan.
Frequently asked questions
Is this only for autistic children?
No. It is designed to be diagnosis-agnostic for families supporting children with additional needs, communication differences, distress, meltdowns, or self-injurious behaviour.
What is an ABC behaviour tracker?
An ABC behaviour tracker is a way to record Antecedent, Behaviour and Consequence information.
That means noting what happened before an incident, what behaviour was observed, and what happened afterwards. Behaviour Tracker helps parents and carers keep those notes in a consistent format, alongside severity, duration, location, early signs and what helped.
Is this the same as an ABC behavior log?
Yes. ABC behaviour tracker, ABC behavior log, ABC chart and ABC data sheet are often used to describe similar ways of recording Antecedent, Behaviour/Behavior and Consequence information.
Behaviour Tracker uses UK spelling on Steady Neuro, but the app can still help families looking for an ABC behavior log, meltdown tracker or behaviour logging app.
What are common situations?
Common situations are repeated routines or events, such as morning dressing, waiting for dinner, leaving the house, or bedtime.
You can estimate how often they usually happen each week. Behaviour Tracker can then compare incidents with routine frequency, which gives more context than incident counts alone.
Can schools use it?
It is designed for parents/carers, but the information can help conversations with school. If a school or organisation is interested in using Steady Neuro tools, they can contact us.
Does it replace a behaviour specialist?
No. It helps organise observations and patterns. It does not replace assessment, safeguarding, clinical advice, or a behaviour support plan.
Where is the data stored?
Behaviour Tracker stores your data on your device.
If iCloud sync is available and enabled in the app, your data may also be stored in your private iCloud account so it can sync between your Apple devices. Steady Neuro does not operate a separate account system for Behaviour Tracker and does not run its own cloud database for your behaviour logs.
Steady Neuro cannot read your private iCloud data.
Privacy and support
You can read the full Behaviour Tracker Privacy Policy.