Behavior

Behavior deficits/excesses
ABA
Direct skill training

Communication
AAC
Speech
Inability to talk does not mean an inability to
think, process, know, or learn (Bauby,1997).
Elementary school
Focus on behavior and communication development


BEHAVIOR DEFICITS
Receptive language
Leisure time skills/play skills
Academic skills
Social Skills
Self-care skills
Compliance
Attending
Imitating
Auditory/visual discrimination
Work skills
Eye contact
Tantrums
Screaming
Self-stimulation
Self-abuse
Aggression
Bizarre behaviors
Echolalia
Perseveration
Refusing to follow directions

BEHAVIOR EXCESSES
Common Behavioral Deficits And Excesses
How Do Elementary School deals with
such behavior?
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Effective Behavior Support
Strategies:
Should rarely include the use of punishment

Aversive stimuli should never be used
Will only encourage avoidance, escape, and strong emotional backlash

Use Visual support
Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)
Direct skills Training

Visual Support
First. . ., then. . . cards Personal rule card
Change-in-routine cards
Stress Card
1) I am feeling stress!
2) I need to leave for a few minutes.
3) I will return when I am calm
Sample stress cards
Problems
Idiosyncratic and unreliable
Echolalia

Supporting students
Whisper
Teach a script
Communication Support: Speech
Includes all forms of
communication other than oral

Used to
Express thoughts, needs, desires
and ideas.
Making a face, a gesture, use
symbols or pictures, write AAC
are forms of communication.

Increase social interactions,
improve performance at school
feel more self sufficient.
Communication Support:
Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Sign language and
gestural systems
Objects and pictures Communication
devices

Argumentative and alternative Communication
Techniques used in inclusive classroom
Writing Facilitated
Communication, FC
Authorship
Evaluation
Achieving the IEP
goals.
Evaluate the ASD
students progress


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