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In-service Trainings
Skill Curriculum Development
Behavior Plan Development
Peer Sensitivity Training
In-service Trainings
We offer full day (6 hour) inservice trainings covering three basic areas:
(a) An overview of difficulties associated with Social-Communication Disorders,
(b) Behavior management strategies, and (c) social skills training. Inservices
involve a Powerpoint presentation, extensive handouts, with live modeling
and video presentations of skill lessons. The following depicts the typical
content of an inservice training:
- Understanding Challenging Behaviors in children with autistic spectrum
disorders, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and multiple learning disabilities
- Hierarchy of Behavior Management Strategies:
- Relationship building and collaborative problem solving
- Avoiding power struggles
- How to deal with meltdowns
- Creating a behavior plan for repeat problems
- Modifications
- Replacement skills
- Reward/loss programs
- Social Skills Training
- Components of skills training:
- Formal skill lessons
- Generalization strategies
- Peer sensitivity training
- Peer-related programs: lunch buddy, lunch bunch, classroom
milieu
- Strategies to teach skills
- Prerequisite attending skills
- Conversation skills, cooperative play skills, emotion management,
understanding others' feelings, dealing with teasing.

Skill Curriculum Development
We can come to a school to evaluate the social skill needs of an individual
student or group of students and design an appropriate social skills program.
This requires the availability of school staff to run the program, as
we can design and supervise it, but not provide the ongoing direct service.
Typically this involves at least 2-3 visits to the school and follow up
visits or phone consultation.

Behavior Plan development
We can provide an assessment of problem behaviors to help understand why
the behaviors occur. This is also known as a "Functional Assessment."
The assessment may involve observation, interview, review of behavior
diaries, and filling out questionnaires. Based on the information we will
put together a behavior plan that may involve: Modifications to the demands
placed on the student, skills training to provide alternatives to inappropriate
behaviors, and incentive systems.

Peer Sensitivity Training
When a particular student is perceived negatively by his or her peers,
those peers may begin to tease or harass that student. In addition to
helping the student to handle the teasing, it is equally or more important
to address his or her peers in an effort to alter their negative perceptions
of the student. Peer sensitivity training involves a presentation to the student's peer
group about the student's strengths, difficulties, and ways he or she
can be helped. We typically ask peers to help in three ways: (a) invite
the student to join in when the student has been left out, (b) stand up
for the student if others are teasing him or her, and (c) offer help to
the student if he or she is upset. |
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