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Effective Behavior Management Strategies for Children with Disabilities: A Comprehensive Guide

Learn how to define, prevent, and manage unexpected behaviors in children with disabilities, with specific focus on LD and behavioral implications. Explore tips and tools for conducting functional behavioral analysis and creating behavior intervention plans. Enhance your understanding of communicating with children and promoting positive behaviors through attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction. Empower yourself with practical strategies for school discipline and conducting special needs storytime sessions.

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Effective Behavior Management Strategies for Children with Disabilities: A Comprehensive Guide

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  1. Class 10: Behavior Management 1 April 2015

  2. Overview • Disabilities with Behavioral Implications • Define Behavior Managment • Preventing Unexpected Behavior • Managing Unexpected behavior

  3. Disabilities with Behavioral Implications

  4. LD and Behavior F.A.T. City Workshop • Chapter 2: Experiencing Furstration, Anxiety and Tension • Chapter 7: Effect of Perceptinon Behavior • Chapter 13: Commentary

  5. Hierarchy of Needs

  6. Behavior as Communication • Inability to be understood can result in frustration • Use the child’s preferred mode of communication

  7. ARCS – Dr. John Keller • Attention • Relevance • Confidence • Satisfaction

  8. Attention • Build Interest • Promote Active Participation • Provide Variety

  9. Relevance • Model appropriate behaviors • Share expectations • Provide choice • Create an autonomous, supportive environment http://www.nypl.org/voices/blogs/blog-channels/barrier-free-library

  10. Confidence • Build competence • Identify and provide appropriate level of challenge • Give feedback

  11. Confidence Cont. • Provide safe, secure, welcoming environment • Create trust • Ensure scaffolding is in place

  12. Satisfaction • Use appropriate rewards • Allocate time for reflection • Provide enrichment activities

  13. Functional Behavioral Analysis

  14. Behavior Tips: Preparation • Social Story • Meet the child • Pre-visit • Tour

  15. Behavior Tips - Structure • Make implied structure explicit • If multiple sessions, use same structure each time • Announce structure at the beginning and reinforce • Use picture schedules

  16. Behavior Tips – Misc. • Observe how parents, teachers, aids and other who know the person interact with the person • Ask if specific behavior management strategies are used (behavior modification, ABA etc.) • Understand that some of the child’s behaviors may not be in response to you • Use picture schedules • Use visual timers • Be prepared to expand your view of acceptable behavior

  17. Things to Have on Hand • Simple augmentative communication devices • Figdets • Sensory toys • Weighted blanket • Quiet area • Picture schedules for programs

  18. Sexual Behavior in the Library • Almost all children with disabilities experience puberty • People with disabilities have the typical range of sexual feelings

  19. School Discipline • Functional Behavioral Analysis • Behavioral Intervention Plan • Behavior Manifestation Review

  20. Behavior Intervention Plan:Things to Consider • Is the behavior a problem • What were the immediate antecedents • What were the broader antecedents

  21. B.I.P. Cont. • What is being communicated • Experience of the individual • Background of the individual

  22. Behavior Intervention Plan

  23. Conducting A Special Needs Storytime Analysis

  24. Community Profile Assignments • Class presentation in the form of an elevator speech, no more than 60 seconds • Elevator speech should communicate 1 or 2 main ideas • Must actually speak to someone at the agency • Capacity for service is a number of people

  25. Review Best Practices Assignment

  26. Case Study Issues • What are your avatar’s behavioral issues? • Does your character have a BIP? Why or why not?

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