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Specific strategies to use when
behaviour management
doesnt work:
How to avoid resistive behaviour
and unnecessary power struggles
Nathan E. Ory, M.A.
Challenging Behavior Analysis and Consultation, Ltd
Special Education Council of the
Alberta Teachers Association
Kananaskas, Alberta
October 15, 2010
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P - Identify the individuals functionalbehaviours that will respond to increased
structure and training of alternativecoping skills.
Begin by always checking outfunctional behavioural factors
Typical and more obvious
Functional-behavioural factors
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Basic, behavioural approaches
- Increase structure with positive reinforcementand avoidable consequences to teach the value ofself-control.
- Train how to cope with specific situations as aparticular skill.
- Train in alternative forms of communication thatis more appropriate to situation.
- Teach person how to not be reactive by providingchoices and options for positive control.
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PDifficulties and limitations in:
P - recognizing/analyzing what isimportant and relevant.
P
- analyzing what to do first/where to start
P - attending to and sustaining attention towhat is relevant.
What is going on when someone isntlearning from experience?
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PDifficulties and limitations in:
P - remembering what is important
P - being motivated to attend
P - considering options for action andproblem solving
What is going on when someone isntlearning from experience?
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P - sustained focus to be able to work
towards a goal.
P - ability to process, this first-that next
P - ability to process, if this-then that.
P- ability to anticipate and delaygratification.
Why typical behavioural approachesmay not work or lead to
oppositional reactions
Assumptions and requirements for learning:
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What you can do when youdont know what to do!
Accommodate to disabilities indistractibility and inattention
Gain eye contact
Keep language short (4-5 words)
Pause:
Repeat
Demonstrate:Be visual and concrete, use props
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P Slower rate of processing and
P Difficulty processing time references...
< Interferes with ability to understandconditional
P Captured by immediate stimulus,inability to delay response...