Assuming that these results reflect the faculty across the entire school and based on my analysis, I believe Lacy Elementary is ready to implement a school-wide Positive Behavioral Support System (PBSS). “The common features to implementing RTI and PBIS include the following: (a) coordination of schoolwide prevention efforts and systems, (b) universal screening and progress monitoring, (c) selection and use of evidence-based practices, (d) professional development that targets evidence-based practice, (e) evaluating outcomes using data-based decision making, and (f) leadership commitment from administrators and school-based teams that supports school-wide implementation” (Kame’enui, Good, & Harn, 2005; Sugai & Horner, 2006).…
The children are 11-21 and have disorders such as ADHD and OCD among other behavior dysfunctions. These techniques used assist the children with the various behaviors they display as a result of removal from biological families and placement into homes of strangers. When the children display these cognitive behaviors in school or the community behavioral modification charts are used to keep track of the behaviors and monitor improvement. When improvement is noticed the social workers reward the children with movie tickets or other praises they find effective for each individual child. Each behavior is treated differently and addresses in a manner where different techniques are used as well. Children’s Village would like to expand their cognitive behavioral depart, but because of funding they are limited. This agency has displayed the use of the methods and techniques used to change…
For today’s date, there are no completely methods to cure autism. However, psychological and pedagogical intervention, conducting correction centers for children with special needs, specially organized for the child with autism living space in the building, supported by individual drug treatment and diet can dramatically improve a child's development, greatly enhance the quality of autistic life, help them realize their potential. There are many different types of types of treatment, rehabilitation and treatments of autism, that might improve patient’s life. One of them is A.B.A therapy (Applied Behavior Analysis) and the aim of this therapy is to correct the patient’s behavior and communication.…
The Battelle Developmental Inventory – 2nd Edition (BDI-2) is psychoeducational testing instrument used in special education to assess developmental disorders in infants and young children. This paper looks into how the validity, reliability and norms for the BDI-2 were originally developed. The paper also investigates several articles related to the use of the BDI-2, it’s psychometric integrity and properties and validates why the BDI-2 is such a useful tool.…
Although it might not seem to be a difficult task, one of the most highly debated issues in special education is the determination of a child’s eligibility into a special education program. One of the main reasons for this debate is determining intelligence, and what a child’s adaptive behavior is. For the purposes of this paper, the teacher candidate interview Mrs. Angie Ciolek, a special education teacher who works with students who have been determined to have an intellectual disability. During this discussion, Mrs. Ciolek shared many of her experiences, as well as some of her personal thoughts on intelligence, adaptive behavior, problems assessing students, and finally some of the characteristics of her students that resulted in them being eligible for special education services.…
Flanagan, R. (1995). A Review of the Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC): Assessment Consistent With the Requirements of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Journal of School Psychology, 33, 177-186.…
When working with students who have special needs, it is imperative that they are given the proper resources, support and placed in the most beneficial learning environment. Included in this paper is a reflection and analysis of a 5th grader named Jacob. Jacob has ADHD as well as emotional and behavioral disorders. His academic skills are below his grade level, he does not like school and he also is very confrontational. The analysis includes the various learning environments, how they can improve and/or hinder Jacob’s learning, the types of services he should receive, the various technological tools that could be beneficial for him as well as the collaboration models that should be used amongst his teachers.…
Since a high number of adolescents have used alcohol or another drug by the time they have reached the 12th grade, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that providers provide alcohol screening and counseling to all adolescents (Levy & Knight, 2009). A screening tool that can be used is the CRAFFT tool, which is a behavior screening tool for children under the age of 21 to screen for high risk alcohol and other drug use disorders. The tool consists of 6 questions, and CRAFFT is a mnemonic acronym of the first letters of key words in the six questions, so it is a short, effective screening tool that can be administer by pediatric healthcare providers. The tool will help the provider discover if a disorder is present, and then a…
Positive Behavior Support (PBS) is an approach to supporting the people with challenging or problem behavior that combines both a set of values with a set of behavioral principals that we know to be effective. In general, positive behavior support approaches problems in multi ways such as what happens before the behavior, what’s the context of the behavior in terms of time, place, and what’s quality of the of the person. Our traditional approach to the discipline has been to stop behavior problems through the use of punishment. We still have a lot of those present today in the school system such as suspending, expelling, and referring. Positive behavior support system approach is to stop problems or undesirable behavior by replacing with new…
Brief summary of the problem: Social worker reports student is not engaged during classroom activities and often gets picked last in groups. Student reports to have stomach aches in the morning and before lunch almost every day. Student is acting out on the playground and has been reported throwing rocks and pushing other student’s.…
While separated, children participated in effective functioning tasks as well as three standardized intelligent subtest and the parents answered questions about the family. As apart of this study, the teachers of the children were contacted and asked to complete several observational worksheets on the specific child participants adaptive functioning as well. The progress of the effective functioning skills was measured with six tasks that highlighted set shifting, inhibitory control, and delay of gratification. Four cool effective functioning tasks such as, Simon says, Dimensional Change Card Sort, Peg Tapping, and Computerized Pointing Stroop were also used to test effective functioning skills in different areas of concentration.…
Children have a past and sometimes that past causes children to behave in ways that are inappropriate. A functional behavior assessment will help to analyze the child's behavior and could even lead to understanding what has happened in their life. The assessment could reveal that a child has been abandoned, abused, neglected, or even unloved. The functional behavior assessment would help to explain which of these sad things happened to the child. Once the wrong has been identified the correction in the family situation can be fixed but the behavior still needs to be corrected. The functional behavior assessment will also help to identify what possible fixes for the child could be used to apply to the correction behavioral plan.…
Farenga, J. and Ness, D. (2005). Families of Children with Special Needs, Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development. Vol. 3. Armonk, NY; M.E. Sharpe, 2005. 891-893. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 3 May 2012…
conducted an investigation into parents of children with ASDs perceptions, and satisfaction, with the education their children were receiving. Participants were 144 parents of children who had a diagnosis of an ASD, and were currently enrolled in a mainstream school. Mothers, as opposed to fathers or both parents, completed 89.9% of the surveys. It was fount that 15.4% of children had been suspended, and all parents believed the reasoning behind it was the school staff’s inability to deal with the child’s behaviour. Furthermore, aggression committed by the child was a common reasoning for suspension. However, parents generally felt that the suspension occurred unnecessarily as the child’s behaviour was not dealt with adequately (p.210). This could suggest that children with ASDs should be educated in special schools, as the staff may be more understanding and better prepared for helping the child with any aggressive outbursts they may have. Moreover, it could be argued that special schools are more appropriate for children with ASDs as they will be with staff, and in an environment, that is better suited to their overall needs. Consequently, this could decrease the amount of exclusions, which will benefit the child, as they are detrimental to their education. However, this means that parents may feel forced to send their child to a special school, even if they don’t want to, due to the fear of their child not being fully supported in a mainstream…
Children with intellectual disability face challenges that affect all the family members and both internal and external relationships. Intellectual disability is defined as mental retardation, involves significant either mild or significant impairments in intellectual functioning. It might cause limitations in adaptive behaviour and cognitive reasoning that begin prior to the age of 18 (AAIDD, 2010) . This situation exists even after the context of community environment and mental limitations are measured and considered (Schalock, et al., 2007). Adaptive behaviour such as personal…