In this issue you will Find Topics On:
- Behavior Management
- College Students with Disabilities
- Early Intervention
- Families and Communities
- High School Graduation Rates
- IDEA
- Juvenile Justice for Girls
- Participation Requests
- Youth with Disabilities
Behavior Management
Behavior Suite
NICHCY is pleased to connect you with information for helping children who have behavior challenges. Because “behavior” is such a huge topic, we’ve divided the subject up into separate pages to make digesting it more manageable! Find behavior expertise, resources on bullying, information on functional behavioral assessment and how to write a behavior intervention plan, and strategies for managing behavior at home and school.
https://nichcy.org/schoolage/behavior
Behavior: The Pressing Classroom Issue(blog)
It is important to be proactive about establishing student behavior expectations. Having a solid plan in place can ease some of the anxiety around classroom management. This blog connects you with a training module, developed by the IRIS Center, to help teachers create a comprehensive behavior management plan.
https://nichcy.org/behavior-the-classroom-issue
Classroom Management: Learning the Components of a Comprehensive Behavior Management Plan
This module-a revision of Who’s In Charge? Developing a Comprehensive Behavior Management System-highlights the importance of establishing a comprehensive classroom behavior management system composed of a statement of purpose, rules, procedures, consequences, and an action plan. It also provides information about how culture, classroom factors, and teacher actions can influence student behavior. Also available in Spanish.
https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/beh1/chalcycle.htm
Stress-Free Holidays for Students with Disabilities
Holidays are often a difficult time for people with special needs. This article describes ways in which teachers can help relieve holiday stress for students with disabilities.
https://tinyurl.com/d4nv7gv
Bully Prevention is School Wide Positive Behavior Support
This handbook focuses on reducing bullying behavior through the blending of school-wide positive behavior support, explicit instruction, and a redefinition of the bullying construct. middle school version is also available.
https://www.pbis.org/school/bully_prevention.aspx
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Kids?
PTSD develops as a result of trauma. This blog helps you to take a step back and define trauma from a child’s point of view.
https://tinyurl.com/bqopz6f
College Students with Disabilities
College Students with Disabilities: What Factors Influence Successful Degree Completion? A Case Study (September 2012)
Report
https://www.heldrich.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/content/College_Students_Disabilities_Report.pdf
The John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development and the Kessler Foundation have released “College Students with Disabilities: What Factors Influence Successful Degree Completion? A Case Study.” The study examined five community colleges and universities in New Jersey and 20 individuals with disabilities who had successfully completed their college education. Available in pdf (230 KB, 16 pp).
Early Intervention
Creating Teaching Tools for Young Children with Challenging Behavior
This free product developed by the Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children (TACSEI) gives teachers practical strategies, developed from TACSEI’s research activities and experiences in Positive Behavior Support, to create a plan to support young children who have challenging behavior. https://www.challengingbehavior.org/do/resources/teaching_tools/ttyc.htm
Acknowledging Children’s Positive Behaviors
This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how-to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments.
https://ea.niusileadscape.org/docs/FINAL_PRODUCTS/LearningCarousel/PositiveBx.pdf
The Anti-Bullying and Teasing Book for Preschool Classrooms(there is a cost)
In preschool, many children encounter their first experiences in forming and joining social groups outside their family. This guide addresses teasing and bullying as a continuum of intentionally hurtful behavior, from making fun of someone to repetitive physical abuse. The Anti-Bullying and Teasing book can help teachers of young children address this behavior before it develops.
https://www.gryphonhouse.com/store/trans/productDetailForm.asp?BookID=13546
Families and Communities
Special Needs Parenting: 12 Tips for Managing Challenging Behavior
Managing behavior that is challenging can be very stressful for parents of children and adults with special needs. But it’s important to see it as a form of communication. This blog offers 12 tips to help parents and families to handle challenging behavior.
What to Expect and When to Seek Help: Bright Futures Developmental Tools for Families and Providers
This resource offers checklists, notes, and general guidelines to help families and providers to support the growth and development of children, toddler to teen years. The four developmental tools offer a framework for families and providers to begin a conversation together about how best to support healthy social and emotional development in children and teens, broken down by age group to help streamline the information that is relevant to the needs of the child.
https://gucchd.georgetown.edu/72824.html
Conduct Disorder: Facts for Families
The American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry developed Facts for Families to provide concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children, teenagers, and their families. Also available in Spanish.
https://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/conduct_disorder
Toy Guide for Differently-abled Kids
Selecting a toy for a child who has a disability? Toys”R”Us and the National Lekotek Center offer a helpful “Toy Guide for Differently-Abled Kids” in English and Spanish. The guide includes thorough descriptions of recommended toys, quotes about the toys from family members, and a key to help identify specific skills the toy helps to develop.
https://trus.imageg.net/graphics/media/trus/2012-DAG-English.pdf
The Family Gathering: A Survival Guide
Holiday gatherings can be stressful. This is true for all of us, but it can be especially true for children who have psychiatric disorders. The Child Mind Institute has compiled a list of seasonal tips to help all kids-and parents-enjoy the party.
Ten Ways Your Child’s Behavior Is Like a TV Detective Show
Chances are, if you have a child with challenging behavior, you’ve felt like a detective, searching for clues and seeking hidden motivations. Investigate these ten ways your experience is similar to theirs, and pick up some tips for being a more skillful seeker of truth.
High School Graduation Rates
States Report New High School Graduation Rates Using More Accurate, Common Measure (November 2012)
Report
https://tinyurl.com/d82h4mr
The U.S. Department of Education has released data detailing state four-year high school graduation rates in 2010-11, the first year for which all states used a common, rigorous measure. The varying methods formerly used by states to report graduation rates made comparisons between states unreliable, while the new, common metric can be used by states, districts and schools to promote greater accountability and to develop strategies that will reduce dropout rates and increase graduation rates in schools nationwide.
IDEA
FROM OUR FRIENDS AT THE IDEA PARTNERSHIP
The IDEA Partnership hosts a national online library of professional development resources compiled to help bridge research, policy, and practice. This library provides local educators with easy access to an array of resources that can be used or customized to meet their needs. Follow the link below to view the resources available on behavior management. You won’t be disappointed by what you find.
https://www.learningport.us/topics/?topic_id=1065
Juvenile Justice for Girls
Improving the Juvenile Justice system for Girls: Lessons from the States (October 2012)
Report
https://tinyurl.com/c65bt2s
The Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy has released “Improving the Juvenile Justice system for Girls: Lessons from the States.” The report reviews the literature documenting pathways into the juvenile justice system; examines recent gender-responsive, trauma-informed reform efforts; highlights reform efforts in three jurisdictions; and concludes with recommendations for future efforts at the local, state, and federal levels. Available in pdf (951 KB, 56 pp).
Participation Requests
AAIDD Journal Inclusion Call for Papers
https://www.aaidd.org/content_9815.cfm
The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) seeks original articles that describe promising practices in services and supports, training, and professional development; case studies; and public policy considerations for “Inclusion.” “Inclusion” is a quarterly online, peer-reviewed journal that provides a multidisciplinary forum for the discussion of interventions and strategies that promote the full inclusion of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in society, for administrators, clinicians, policymakers, and other professionals interested in intellectual disability and related developmental disabilities. The expected launch-date is 2013, available as AAIDD member benefit or by subscription.
Papers on Youth Gangs and Adolescent Development
https://www.s-r-a.org/CallforSpecialIssuePapers
The Journal of Research on Adolescence (JRA) seeks submissions for a special section dedicated to youth gangs and adolescent development. The section will incorporate five to six papers. Submission deadline: January 31, 2013.
Transition Assessment & Goal Generator (TAGG)
https://tinyurl.com/a7raymx
The University of Oklahoma’s Zarrow Center for Learning Enrichment received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to develop a new transition assessment, the Transition Assessment and Goal Generator, to prepare students with disabilities for life after high school. They are now in the third phase (TAAG) of development for this assessment and need help to develop this new assessment tool from junior and senior students with mild to moderate disabilities across the nation, their special educators, and parents, who will be asked to complete the TAGG, either the AIR Self-Determination Assessment or the EITA, and provide basic demographic information. The Center will provide a meaningful honorarium for participants’ time.
VSA International Young Soloists Competition 2013 Seeks Entries
https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/vsa/programs/young_soloists.cfm
The VSA & Accessibility Department at the Kennedy Center seeks entries in the 2013 VSA International Young Soloists Competition, The Kennedy Center invites entries from musicians ages 14-25, with a disability, for the Competition. It is open to international and domestic applicants; individuals and ensembles of two to five members; and musicians of all genres. Application deadline: January 15, 2013.
Youth with Disabilities
NCWD/Youth Videos for and by Youth with Disabilities (2012)
Videos
https://www.ncwd-youth.info/videos
The National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability/Youth (NCWD/Youth) has posted two videos (plus three shorter video clips for each on the three main sections of each one) for and by youth with disabilities. The “411 on Disability Disclosure” video features youth with disabilities discussing how deciding to disclose their disabilities affected them in school, work, and social situations. It is a companion to “411 on Disability Disclosure: A Workbook for Youth with Disabilities.” In “Making Your Move to Managing Your Own Personal Assistance Services (PAS),” youth share how they use PAS, PAS as an aspect of independent living, and what’s involved in finding and managing their own services. It is a companion to the publication of the same title.
