Behavior Assessment to Bullying

Behavior Assessment, Plans, and Positive Supports

• This article provides you with sources of information for helping children who have behavior challenges.: This Connections page focuses on Behavioral Assessment, Plans, and Positive Supports. Without a doubt, a critical first step in addressing problem behavior is determining why the student is exhibiting the behavior. To do so, a behavior assessment must generally be conducted. Only when more is known about the cause or causes of the student’s behavior can appropriate positive supports be identified and provided.

Behavior Contracts

• Here you can purchase on issues such as: driving, substances, school, allowance, chores, working, citizenship, dating, and more: KidsContracts are very simple to use, fill-in-the-blank, agreements which cover a wide variety of important health, safety, social and educational issues. We think you will find that these contracts are one of the most important things that you and your child will ever agree to. We also think your investment (time and money) in these agreements will be one of the best investments you ever made.

• Steps in implementing behavior contracts between students and teachers, pros and cons, sample contract, discussions: The behavior contract spells out in detail the expectations of student and teacher (and sometimes parents) in carrying out the intervention plan, making it a useful planning document. Also, because the student usually has input into the conditions that are established within the contract for earning rewards, the student is more likely to be motivated to abide by the terms of the behavior contract than if those terms had been imposed by someone else.

Behavior at Home

• This article provides you with sources of information for helping parents cope with their child with his or her behavior at home: NICHCY is pleased to connect you with sources of information for helping your child with his or her behavior at home. Having a child with challenging behavior can affect the entire family, and family members often find the need for more information and guidance in this difficult area… read more

Behavior at School

• This article provides you with sources of information for helping children with disabilities with respect to behavior at school: School presents a unique challenge for children with behavior issues. Teachers need tools to use to help provide support and guidance.  Administrators need methods for creating a positive learning atmosphere within the entire school.

Behavior Expertise

• This particular page is one of many focusing on behavior issues and the various areas of behavior that need to be addressed: NICHCY is pleased to connect you with sources of information for helping children who have behavior challenges.  This page in our Behavior Suite focuses on where to access Behavior Expertise.

Behavior Intervention Plans

• Offers services and resources to parents of autistic children: From the Behavioral Intervention Association
• The Behavior Home Page:This site provides information on the three-tiered model of behavioral support. Interventions are developed at Universal (school-wide), Targeted (small groups or individual students), and Intensive (wraparound) levels to teach all students what they must do to be successful. This page identifies and provides links to resources for each level of behavioral support.
• Functional Behavior Assessment: This site provides its viewers with all of the resources needed to understand the usefulness of functional behavioral assessments and behavioral intervention plans in addressing student problem behavior, as well as what the law requires of school districts with regard to these topics.
• Intervention Central: This site provides newly posted academic and behavioral intervention strategies, publications on effective teaching practices, and use tools that streamline classroom assessment and intervention.
• This site provides information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices: The Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) has been established by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education to give schools capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices.
• Addressing student problem behavior: This article describes the need for behavior intervention plans, lists some techniques, and goes into the topics surrounding behavior issues and how to address them using the behavior intervention plan.

Behavior Management

• Choosing your battles – Targeting behavior problems worth fighting for: Children with special needs sometimes present parents with so many opportunities for behavioral correction that, if they pursued every one, children would never leave the time-out chair. How do parents let them know the rules are important, and still use discretion when it comes to discipline?

• Assessing Stress in Children and Youth: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners. Designed to help out-of-school program practitioners recognize and reduce the risk consequences such as negative health and behavior development from stress.

Behavior Modification

• Identifies, discusses, and suggests techniques for teachers in handling difficult students in the classroom: A reference for handling over 117 behaviors at home and school.
• Offers youth programs and crisis intervention to bring about lasting change – help for parents of struggling teens: Lifelines Crisis Intervention represents programs which have assisted families from all corners of the nation in finding the best program for their teen. We represent only the finest programs in the U.S. that will help your teenager internalize lasting changes and assist you in rebuilding family unity.
• This article clears up conflicts people have about behavior modification. It gives examples of children who may need it and how to implement it: All adults who deal with children develop strategies to shape their behavior. Children need basic tools of language, learning, emotional maturity and self-control to function effectively with others. The principles of Behavior Modification describe a formalized method that observes behavior and seeks to shape it in positive ways. The purposes of Behavior Modification in the education of children are NOT brainwashing, bribery or mind control.

Benefits for Children with Disabilities – Click Here

• This booklet is written primarily for the parents and caregivers of children with disabilities and adults disabled since childhood. It illustrates the kinds of Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits a child with a disability might be eligible for and explains how we evaluate disability claims for children.

Bilingual and Culturally Diverse Students

• A discussion on Diagnosing Communication Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students:The disproportionate referral of bilingual and culturally diverse students to special education and related services is a pressing challenge in public school systems. Not only are unnecessary services a drain on resources, but they are harmful to children, taking them away from the classroom and inevitably stigmatizing them. In addition, an incorrect diagnosis may mean that a child does not receive the services he or she does need.
• Identifying learning disabilities in culturally diverse students: As you probably know, appropriate identification and placement of English language learners who may also have learning differences/special needs can be quite difficult, as it’s often hard to tell what may be a language problem and what may be a learning problem�the two often look very similar. There is quite a bit of research available on this topic that may be of help to you.

Bullying

• Sources of Information on Bullying: Bullying is a serious problem with horrible consequences if left unchecked. The good news is that you can do lots to stop it. We hope that the resources listed are useful to you in that effort.
• Prevention: School is supposed to be a place where students feel safe and secure and where they can count on being treated with respect. The reality, however, is that a significant number of students are the target of bullying episodes that result in serious, long-term academic, physical, and emotional consequences. Unfortunately, school personnel often minimize or underestimate the extent of bullying and the harm it can cause. In many cases, bullying is tolerated or ignored.
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