Teacher responsibilities
- Provide student access to same standards as other students
* work collaboratively to develop new skills/strategies
School Professionals (SLP, psych. OT, administrators, counselors) responsibilities
- provide observations/assessments to determine eligibility
- participate in goal planning
- consult with teachers
- provide intervention
Student responsibilities
- Helps identify strengths
* ask for help
Questions for school team to answer
- what are student’s strengths/weaknesses?
- What behaviors affect interaction in the environment?
- What instructional support is available?
- What is the educational goal?
- What is the daily schedule?
- level of support?
Components of successful environment
- direct and consistent instructions
* strategies for independence
Types of strategies for independence
- Combination of simple/clear verbal instructions with visual prompts – schedules
- Use of functional everyday tasks to encourage generalization
- Reinforcement schedules to help maintain target behavior and motivation
Accommodations
- Preferential seating
- minimize distractions
- frequent breaks
- note taking assistance
- pre-teaching
- positive reinforcement
- large print test format
Modifications
- special curriculum
- simplified text
- adapted materials
- average all scores
- use single project/test/paper
- simplify vocab
What is structured teaching?
instructional strategies and environmental supports for individuals with ASD developed by the TEACCH program.
Goals of TEACCH
- teach the individual with ASD as many skills as possible
- provide and environment that is as comprehnsible as possible
- both an educational technique and a method of organizing a supportive environment
5 questions of structured teaching
- where should i be?
- what work or activity will i do?
- how much work will i do and how long will it last?
- how will i know that i’m making progress?
- what will i do next?
Strategies
- praising students and expressing pride in their efforts
- having students observe and imitate behavior of other students
- Visual sc hedules of activities
What is crisis management designed for?
a short term solution for a dangerous situation. What do we need to do to react right now?
Positive behavior support
strategies designed to change behaviors by manipulating environment or teaching alternative solutions
Antecedents
- Slow triggers (setting events): a build up of something upsetting
- Fast triggers (immediate antecedents): greater focus here because these are immediately evident and can be easily identified.
Consequences
Responses that follow a behavior and that maintain behavior
6 steps in functional behavior assessment
- define problem behavior
- gather behavioral data
- develop hypothesis statement
- create a behavior support plan
- Implement interventions
- Monitor implementation and outcomes
