Autism Classroom Resources

The skills that we teach in the behavior intervention plan are critical to its success. I talked in Episode 16 about the importance of replacement behaviors. But they aren’t the only important skills to teach. We can also teach skills that will help students learn to control their behavior better as well as skills to decrease the opportunity for challenging…
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Everyone tells you that you have to have replacement behaviors in your behavior plans, right? But how do you know what it is and how to teach them effectively? Behavior plans that have replacement behaviors that match the function and are more efficient at gaining reinforcement than the problem behavior are what you need. This podcast can give you all…
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In this episode, I talk about the prevention strategies of behavior support plans. This is part of our series on behavioral problem solving and the 5 steps to meaningful positive behavioral support. In Episode 14, I talked about how we take our hypothesis statement and have it lead us to creating a behavior plan. Behavior support plans include preventive strategies,…
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In Step 4 of the 5 Steps to Meaningful Behavioral Support, we are focusing on crafting our behavior support plans based on our hypotheses statements (from episode 13). We are developing behavior support plans that not only reduce challenging behavior but one that can also be implemented in the classroom.   And our goal is to end up with a…
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We’re now moving into Step 3 in our 5-step process of meaningful behavioral support and that is developing our FBA hypothesis statements. Now keep in mind that a hypothesis is a best guess. We don’t know that this is what’s actually driving the behavior until we confirm our hypothesis and I’ll be talking about that later in the series and…
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