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Preventive Strategies

Preventive Strategies. EDCI 336 October 20, 2005. Preventive Strategies. Establish trust Know children well enough to predict problems Prepared materials. Preventive Strategies. PLAN motivating, varied activities Mixture of quiet and energetic activities Appropriate schedules.

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Preventive Strategies

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  1. Preventive Strategies EDCI 336 October 20, 2005

  2. Preventive Strategies • Establish trust • Know children well enough to predict problems • Prepared materials

  3. Preventive Strategies • PLAN motivating, varied activities • Mixture of quiet and energetic activities • Appropriate schedules

  4. Preventive Strategies • Transitions • Minimal “wait time” • Plan for individual needs • Clearly stated, age-appropriate limits

  5. Preventive Strategies • Clear consequences • Contingencies • Opportunities to make age-appropriatechoices

  6. Preventive Strategies • High-interest, novel activities • Classroom arrangement • Adequate number of materials

  7. Preventive Strategies • Proximity • Correspondence training

  8. Responding to Challenging Behaviors • Empathy • Redirecting • Prompting • Choices

  9. Responding to Challenging Behaviors • Ignoring • Role-playing • Relaxation techniques • Talk-it-over place

  10. Responding to Challenging Behaviors • Signals • Self-monitoring • Natural consequences • Mild oral reprimand

  11. Responding to Challenging Behaviors • Time-out • Response cost • Humor

  12. Function of Behavior • All behavior has a function: • To gain attention • To escape a situation • To provide sensory stimulation

  13. Function of Behavior • First we must determine what function the behavior serves • Then we can develop appropriate strategies for intervention

  14. Assessment of Behavior • Define behavior in observable terms • Look for reasons or causes for behavior

  15. ABC’s • Antecedent: Comes before the behavior • Behavior itself • Consequence: Comes after the behavior

  16. Assessment of Behavior • Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence • Anecdotal records • Behavioral checklists • Systematic measurement of : frequency, duration, intensity

  17. Assessment of Behavior • Interviews (student, parent, teachers, nurse, guidance counselor) • Compare the target behavior to the norm for that school, that class and that time

  18. Assessment of Behavior • When we assess behavior in a school, we must look at everything in that student’s school life.

  19. Assessment of Behavior • This includes a systematic assessment of the student’s academic program • How much inappropriate behavior do you think is the result of a poor academic fit?

  20. Assessment of Behavior • Form hypothesis about why behavior is occurring • Should behavior be changed?

  21. Behavioral Intervention • Positive skills to replace inappropriate behavior • Strategy for reinforcing new behavior • Strategy for immediate response to inappropriate behavior

  22. Behavioral Intervention • Implement the plan • Evaluate success of plan • Upon success, begin gradually diminishing intensity of strategies

  23. Assessment of Behavior • Who’s going to do all this???? • Teachers • Peers • Administrators • Special education teachers • School psychologists • Consultants

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