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2. Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) Frost & Bondy: This is a structured augmentative communication system, which uses objects, pictures or words to engage a listener by exchanging the symbol with a communication partner. You can purchase commercial PECS books or make your own from 3-ring binders with Velcro. 3. Applied Behavior Analysis/Behavioral Intervention strategies: Specific instructional strategies include fading of prompts, shaping of successive approximation so target skills and discrete trial teaching techniques. Discrete Trial Teaching involves giving an instruction, student responding and giving a consequence with an intertrial interval. More information on ABA strategies including Discrete Trial Teaching is available from a variety of sources. For significantly challenging behaviors, a Functional Behavioral Assessment will need to be completed. This is a procedure used to determine what is the cause or "function" of a behavior by identifying the behavior, the circumstances and the social function of the behavior i.e. avoidance, escape, etc. A basic assumption is that all behavior is communicative. There are a variety of data collection forms available to determine the antecedents, behavior and consequences related to a specific behavior. Behavior Intervention Plans are then developed based on this information to teach a replacement behavior to achieve the same function i.e. escape, attentionseeking, etc. Picture symbol cards can be used to cue the students on the replacement behavior.
(Appendix B – data collection forms) 4. Strategies to Develop Friendships: Students with severe disabilities need planned and direct intervention to develop friendships. Several strategies have proven successful with students with severe disabilities including developing awareness of disabilities in their peers. • Circle of Friends – is a tool that helps kids get over the friendship barrier of students with disabilities by increasing awareness and creating empathy. Circle of Friends: A Guide For Facilitators Handout (adapted from Barbara Gill, 1991) provides step-by-step procedure to complete the activity with a classroom. (Appendix C – Circle of Friends Handout) • Individual Differences Awareness activities from Heartland Hand-in-Hand Model for Teaching Students with Autism, Heartland AEA #11, Johnston, IA. Suggested activities include setting up stations for students to feel what it might be like to have a disability. Cerebral Palsy station – place beanbag between your knees and at sides with elbows while doing a variety of physical activities i.e. jumping jacks, etc. Autism – use a strobe light when trying to watch a teacher's demonstration, shake hands with gloves lined with sandpaper, put headphones with radio static while trying to follow directions, etc. • Structured Teaching Strategies: Adults directly teach peers the visual structure and instruction that give cues to the student for social interaction skills including communication cues, behavior cue cards and turn-taking cue cards. Communication cue cards could include picture/written greetings, photo cues to use names and picture/written cues to answer questions. Behavior cue cards could include graphic/written
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2. Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) Frost & Bondy: This is a<br />
structured augmentative communication system, which uses objects, pictures<br />
or words to engage a listener by exchanging the symbol with a<br />
communication partner. You can purchase commercial PECS books or make<br />
your own from 3-ring binders with Velcro.<br />
3. Applied Behavior Analysis/Behavioral Intervention strategies: Specific<br />
instructional strategies include fading of prompts, shaping of successive<br />
approximation so target skills and discrete trial teaching techniques. Discrete<br />
Trial Teaching involves giving an instruction, student responding and giving<br />
a consequence with an intertrial interval. More information on ABA<br />
strategies including Discrete Trial Teaching is available from a variety of<br />
sources. For significantly challenging behaviors, a Functional Behavioral<br />
Assessment will need to be completed. This is a procedure used to determine<br />
what is the cause or "function" of a behavior by identifying the behavior, the<br />
circumstances and the social function of the behavior i.e. avoidance, escape,<br />
etc. A basic assumption is that all behavior is communicative. There are a<br />
variety of data collection forms available to determine the antecedents,<br />
behavior and consequences related to a specific behavior. Behavior<br />
Intervention Plans are then developed based on this information to teach a<br />
replacement behavior to achieve the same function i.e. escape, attentionseeking,<br />
etc. Picture symbol cards can be used to cue the students on the<br />
replacement behavior.
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