Family and Community Resources
- From baby to big kid.
ZERO TO THREE’s newest resource for parents is a monthly e-newsletter on how children learn and grow each month from birth to 3 years. Baby to Big Kid helps parents understand how development unfolds, what makes their own child tick, and offers strategies that parents can tailor to the needs of their unique family and individual child. To subscribe, go to: https://www.zerotothree.org/
- National campaign to find and enroll uninsured children.
On November 4, 2009, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called on states and communities to redouble efforts to find and enroll the 5 million children who are currently eligible for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), but are not yet covered. To learn more, go to: https://www.hhs.gov/programs/index.html
- The Resource Center on YouTube.
The Corporation for National and Community Service’s Resource Center’s YouTube page has become bigger and better. More than 60 videos have been added on a broad array of topics related to national and community service, including social media webinars and training. https://www.youtube.com/user/nationalservice
- Google announces automatic captions on YouTube.
Our colleagues at the Family Support Clearinghouse tell us that a new captioning feature is now out in Beta (beginning stages) format from Google. This should help us all make our videos universally accessible!
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/automatic-captions-in-youtube.html
- Connecting a million minds.
Time Warner Cable’s Connect a Million Minds introduces youth to opportunities and resources that inspire them to develop the important science, technology, engineering, and math skills they need to solve the economic, environmental, and community challenges of the future. Search the Connectory for activities and resources in your community.
http://www.connectamillionminds.com/connectory.php
- Introduction to social thinking.
Social thinking is required before social skills can develop. Successful social thinkers consider the points of view, emotions, thoughts, beliefs, prior knowledge and intentions of others. Many have great difficulties with this process. Enter: social thinking methodologies. They can teach people with social limitations the ability to interact socially.
http://www.socialthinking.com/what-is-social-thinking
- Military OneSource.
This service is provided by the Department of Defense at no cost to active duty, Guard and Reserve (regardless of activation status), and their families. It is a virtual extension of installation services. Military OneSource offers help with parenting and child care, education, relocation, financial and legal concerns, and everyday issues. Call the center at 1.800.342.9647 (in English or Spanish), or visit: http://www.militaryonesource.com/
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Finally, a great article on Guidelines for Identifying and Referring Persons with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome can be found at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5411a1.htm
Floortime for Children with Autism
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Excellent overview with practical suggestions: Greenspan describes six emotional milestones or stages of development that form a developmental ladder. “Children achieve these milestones at different ages – there is wide variation even among children without challenges.
Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
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Q&A and articles dealing with FAPE: This page has Qs & As, articles, law, cases, books, and other resources about FAPE.
Functional Behavioral Analysis
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Functional Behavioral Analysis and Change Plans: These Websites provides assistance to educators in evaluating problem behavior and designing behavioral interventions.
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Addressing Student Problem Behavior :The article that provides a wide range of topics discussing behavioral analysis, strategies, assessments and techniques used with children with disabilities.
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This site provides information on useful behavioral strategies and techniques, when working with autistic children and their parents : When considering what new behaviors to teach a child, one must typically consider the behaviors that the child is currently exhibiting. Often, a goal might be to replace a current behavior, one which may be inadequate in effectively meeting the child’s needs, or inappropriate in the current environment, especially those behaviors are severely maladaptive, aggressive, or self-injurious.
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Using Functional Analysis to Improve Reading Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities and Emotional/Behavioral Disorders: This site contains an article that describes an approach to reading instruction for students with learning disabilities and emotional/behavioral disorders in which teachers use principles of functional analysis to generate hypotheses for the causes of reading failure.
Functional Behavioral Assessment
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Functional Behavioral Assessment: This mini-web is designed to provide you with 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.
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Addressing Student Problem Behavior– An IEP Team’s Introduction To Functional Behavioral Assessment And Behavior Intervention Plans.
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Behavior OnLine – The gathering place for Mental Health and Applied Behavioral Science Professionals.
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Functional Behavioral Assessment: What, Why, When, Where, and Who?– An article by Stephen Starin, Ph.D.
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Multimodal Functional Behavioral Assessment – A recommended process.
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Multimodal Functional Behavioral Assessment – Multimodal functional behavioral assessment is the process of identifying important, controllable, and causal functions related to a specific set of target behaviors for a child. The basic philosophy of mfba is that strategic and valid interventions should be coupled with a commitment to treatment integrity and critical outcome evaluation.
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The Functional Analysis of Behavior – Examines the theoretical and ethical limits.
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The Link Between Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs) and Behavioral Intervention Plans (BIPs)– Most research efforts have focused on procedures for conducting an FBA. Fitzsimmons (1998) summarized the typical processes of conducting FBAs, which include five core steps: (1) verify the seriousness of the problem; (2) define the problem behavior in concrete terms; (3) collect data on possible causes of problem behavior; (4) analyze the data; and (5) formulate and test a hypothesis. However, individuals who conduct FBAs do not necessarily incorporate these data into the student’s BIP. http://www.ericdigests.org/2000-4/bips.htm
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The link between functional behavioral assessment and behavioral intervention plans
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What is a Functional Assessment?– A functional behavioral assessment, or analysis, is a process which seeks to identify the problem behavior a child or adolescent may exhibit, particularly in school, to determine the function or purpose of the behavior, and to develop interventions to teach acceptable alternatives to the behavior.
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Functional Behavioral Assessment and the New IDEA: This site discusses serious issues teachers in special education face, such as the presence of challenging behaviors. Functional assessment can be used to establish a basis for individualized behavior management programming. With the development of IDEA 1997, policies and procedures have changed to make functional behavioral assessment mandatory.
General Information about Disabilities
Disabilities That Qualify Infants, Toddlers, Children, and Youth for Services under the IDEA: Every year, under the federal law known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), millions of children with disabilities receive special services designed to meet their unique needs. This is a good overview article of services and needs of children with disabilities birth to 21.
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