WELCOME

1. WELCOME

2. Building Relationships… Creating Successful Change… Oklahoma Parents Center A New Focus of the Oklahoma Parents Center…

3. Oklahoma Parents Center ABOUT US (OPC) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit agency that operates the statewide federally funded Parent Training and Information Center (PTI) in Oklahoma.  We are funded in part under the Parent Training and Information Centers Grant Competition. (CFDA 64.3) and the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE). The new project began October 1, 2007. Mission Statement Oklahoma Parents Center is dedicated to the inclusion and equality of children and adults with disabilities. Our mission is to train, inform, educate, and support parents, families, professionals and consumers in building partnerships that meet the needs of children and youth with the full range of disabilities ages birth through twenty-six.

4. Behavior: A Quick Review

5. Identifying Behavioral Needs • Data Collection • Interviews • Work samples and other permanent products • Behavior rating scales and checklists • Other standardized instruments • Direct observation • Student self-report • Differs significantly from peers?

6. Skill vs. Performance Deficits Skill: Student doesn’t know how? Performance: Student knows how but doesn’t do it?

7. Context of Behavior Antecedent Behavior Consequence How do all the pieces fit together?

8. Aspects of Target Behavior

9. Behavior is Complex Determining Factors of Behavior Peers Habit Culture Family Needs and Desires Disability

10. Why Do Kids Misbehave? • Asserting independence • Protection • Feeling badly about self from Dr. Charles Smith (Kansas State Univ.) • It works! • Copy-Catting • Testing limits

11. What messages do we send to kids? What we do… What our children see us doing…

12. What typically happens when we intervene? • It takes time to change behavior • Behavior gets worse before it gets better • Spontaneous recovery • Low level behavior can escalate

13. Positive Behavioral Supports Individual • 1 - 7% of students • 20 - 25% of students • 70 - 75% of students (Lewis & Sugai, 1999) Selected • School-wide

14. Base the BIP on a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) • Define target behavior • Develop a hypothesis as to the function of the behavior • Collect data(direct and indirectly) • Validate the function and key context variables • Triangulate data • Data analysis • Develop the BIP

15. Behaviors Occur for Many Reasons… • Knowledge deficits • Communication • Sensory Needs

16. Behavioral Intent Students act for a purpose Behavioral intent = purpose sought by the student Most Children seek similar goals in social situations Behavior used by students with behavior problems is not accepted or desired by others

17. Common Functions of Behavior Justice/Revenge Peer Affiliation Power/Control Escape Attention Tangible Reward

18. Focus on Positives Positive Behavioral Interventions, Strategies AND Supports Long-Term Behavior Change ONLY Comes From Positives Need To Balance The Equation

19. Appropriate Consequences • Nature of surface behavior has little to do with selecting an appropriate consequence • The function of behavior should direct the consequences

20. Altering the Context • Only addressing student behavior without changing the context is a recipe for failure. • Teacher behavior, curriculum, peers and family play critical roles in supporting behavior change.

21. The best way to address undesirable behavior… …is to prevent it from happening in the first place!

22. Interventions • Stopping the behavior once it starts but BEFORE it gets out of control. • Timeout, In-School Suspensions, Response-Cost

23. Skill Building Replacement or alternative behaviors Social skills General skills Problem solving Self management

24. Adult Insanity? Is indicated when…particular adults insist on dishing out the same consequences and expecting different results!

25. Potential Potholes • No Basis For Plan • No Plan • Plan Not Followed • No Data On Effectiveness

26. Try some… How will you identify a need? Document current level of functioning? Develop a measurable goal & at least 2 measurable obj./benchmarks? • Self- esteem • Lack of organizational skills • Non-compliance • Anger management • Disrespect • Stereotypic behavior • Off-task • Out of seat • Teasing & taunting

27. Answer the Survey over the phone! Call toll-free at 877-553-4332 to answer the survey questions with the staff at the OPC Have the Survey Mailed to you! Call toll-free at 877-553-4332 and request a copy be mailed to you. Take the Survey Online! Visit our Website and follow the Survey Link at www.OklahomaParentsCenter.org

28. Oklahoma Parents Center Main Office Holdenville, Oklahoma

29. Oklahoma Parents Center PO Box 512 Holdenville, Oklahoma 74848 Call: 877-553-4332 Toll Free 405-379-6015 Main Office Email: info@oklahomaparentscenter.org Visit our Web Site: www.OklahomaParentsCenter.org Check us out on Facebook! Contacting OPC

30. Contact Information Oklahoma Parents Center, Inc. Statewide Parent Training and Information E-mail: info@OklahomaParentsCenter.org Toll Free: 877-553-4332 Main Office: 405-379-6015 Main Office Fax: 405-379-2106 Visit Our Website: www.OklahomaParentsCenter.org Check us out on Facebook! “Knowledge is Power”- Sir Francis Bacon

31. This workshop is funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE). Views expressed in this workshop do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the funders.

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