Positive Behaviour Support

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Icon Talk are a company dedicated to visual teaching strategies and support for persons with autism and other special learning challenges. Their primary goal is to promote independent functioning across developmental areas, including academic, vocational, communication, daily living, and play and leisure.

I came across this Positive Behaviour Support in the Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs Blog. It is from the Icon Talk website. Called a "Fold Up" it has visual cues, first/next, tokens, and more all in one support.

Check it out at http://www.icontalk.com/downloads.html.

Additional Information:

Positive behavior support strives to use a system to understand what maintains an individual’s challenging behavior. Learners’ inappropriate behaviors are difficult to change because they are functional; they serve a purpose for the learner. These behaviors are supported by reinforcement in the environment. Functional assessment clearly describes a behaviour; identifies the contexts (events, times, and situation) that predict when behaviour will and will not occur, and identifies consequences that maintain the behaviour. It also summarizes and creates a hypothesis about the behaviour, and directly observes the behaviour and takes data to get a baseline. The positive behaviour support process involves goal identification, information gathering, hypothesis development, support plan design, implementation and monitoring.

Find out even more at http://www.answers.com/Positive+behavior+support?gwp=11&ver=2.4.0.651&method=3.

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