B-1 A Guide for Paraeducators: Developmentally Appropriate Supports for Students with Intellectual Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors
Presenter
Formats and Times
- In-Person Training: 3 hours (8:30-11:30)
- On-Demand Webinar: 1.75 hours
Content
Ever wonder why your student does not respond to a particular support? Ever wonder why reinforcement "doesn't work" with your student? Ever wonder why your student needs so much prompting? Have you ever considered nontraditional approaches and matching supports and strategies to the student's developmental level of functioning? This workshop will address these questions and explain how developmentally-appropriate supports and strategies can help increase positive engagement in students. Providing smart schedules, functional work systems, meaningful visual supports, and effective reinforcement can increase students' independence and engagement while reducing challenging behavior. Understanding the implications of a student's developmental level is critical to this process, which will be discussed in this workshop. Some of the themes to be addressed include, "Making Time and Activities Concrete and Experiential," "Making Work Systems Come Alive and Increasing Engagement," and of course, "Matching Behavior Strategies to Behavior Function and Developmental Level."
Intended Audience
Paraeducators and individual aides
Participants Will
- Understand the role of development when designing supports for students.
- Describe and select strategies that match the student's developmental level, which may be used to increase positive engagement and learning, and prevent and intervene with challenging behavior.
