How to keep meltdowns from overheating your classroom
This book outlines practical steps for preventing and responding to the various phases of meltdown behavior in students with AUtism Spectrum Disorder. Based on Geoff Colvin′s best-selling book, Managing the Cycle of Acting Out Behavior in the Classroom, this practitioner-friendly guide provides special and general education teachers of autistic students a seven-phase positive behavior support model that includes interventions for each phase.
Teachers will find experienced guidance for providing a supportive environment in which students with ASD can succeed.
Tabella dei contenuti
Foreword by Richard L. Simpson
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
Section I: A Model for Meltdown Behavior of Students With ASD
1. Autism Spectrum Disorder, Overview
2. The Nature of Meltdowns
3. A Six-Phase Model of the Meltdown Cycle
Section II: Strategies for Managing the Phases of the Meltdown Cycle
4. Calm Phase
5. Trigger Phase
6. Agitation Phase
7. Meltdown Phase
8. Re-Grouping Phase
9. Starting-Over Phase
10. The Parent Component
Closing Remarks
Appendices
References
Index
Circa l’autore
Geoff Colvin draws on his experience as a classroom teacher, administrator, researcher and instructor at the University of Oregon, and national public school consultant. Widely recognized as an expert on the subjects of school safety and violence prevention, Colvin has provided inservice training for teachers and administrators in more than 100 school districts and agencies nationally and internationally. He recently served as research associate at the University of Oregon and independent consultant in the areas of schoolwide discipline, school climate, school safety, and violence prevention, classroom management, and individual cases involving students with severe behavior disorders. Geoff also directed a juvenile detention school and a school program for youth with serious emotionally disturbances. Colvin has authored more than sixty publications, books, book chapters, journal articles, and video programs on the subject of teaching and managing students who exhibit the full range of problem behavior.
Altri ebook dello stesso autore / Editore
45.305 Ebook in questa categoria
