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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Positive Behavior Support by Promoting Student Enjoyment

Enhancing the Effectiveness of Positive Behavior Support by Promoting Student Enjoyment . Dennis H. Reid, Ph.D., BCBA Session 32A 2:00 Session 32B 10:45 Session 32C 12:45. Agenda. Importance of enjoyment How to increase enjoyment. Why Focus on Enjoyment?.

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Enhancing the Effectiveness of Positive Behavior Support by Promoting Student Enjoyment

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  1. Enhancing the Effectiveness of Positive Behavior Support by Promoting Student Enjoyment Dennis H. Reid, Ph.D., BCBA Session 32A 2:00 Session 32B 10:45 Session 32C 12:45

  2. Agenda • Importance of enjoyment • How to increase enjoyment

  3. Why Focus on Enjoyment? • Enjoyment (happiness) a universal concern and basic right • Key component of PBS • Reductions in problem behavior • Often talked about but rarely systematically addressed

  4. Qualification • Focus on enjoyment and academic growth and appropriate school social behavior • That is, not in place of academic growth or appropriate school behavior

  5. Goal for Increasing Enjoyment • Students will get up in the morning and, most of the time, look forward to going to school and • Look forward to academic participation

  6. Increasing Enjoyment • Importance of good relationships • Our examples • Research findings (e.g., developing a good “mood”)

  7. Developing a Relationship • Spend time doing things that the student likes to do • Help the student avoid disliked events • Learn to communicate with the student

  8. Relationships and Personal Attention • Universal importance of attention • Attention as a reinforcer for school success . . . working for attention • Attention/praise must be individual-based

  9. Increasing Enjoyment • Choice opportunities • Research findings • Increases immediate (relative) enjoyment • Increases activity engagement • Provides degree of control • Decreases problem behavior • Types of choices: what, where, how, when, with whom

  10. Qualification With Providing Choices • LICS

  11. Increasing Enjoyment • Access to preferences • Distinction of purpose between contingent and noncontingent application • Systematic preference assessments • For beginning and ending the day

  12. Increasing Enjoyment • Making nonpreferred tasks more preferred • Ask, do, review • Critical observation • Preference-based teaching

  13. Preference-Based Teaching • Reid, D.H., & Green, C.W. (2005). Preference-Based Teaching: Helping People with Developmental Disabilities Enjoy Learning without Problem Behavior. Habilitative Management Consultants, Inc. • www.behaviordevelopmentsolutions.com

  14. Preference-Based Teaching • ABC model • Antecedent • choice, behavioral momentum • Behavior • interspersal (preferences, easier tasks) • Consequence • desired outcome (consequence), choices • Setting events

  15. Finally . . . • Supervisors and consultants . . . • Don’t forget people who provide support: enjoyment of front-line personnel impacts student enjoyment

  16. Please complete evaluations Dennis H. Reid, Ph.D., BCBA Session 32A 2:00 Session 32B 10:45 Session 32C 12:45

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