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Purchase AccessLearner Objectives: 1. Participants will learn how their school implementation of School Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) can be more effective for students with ASD. 2. The session will offer specific examples of modifications of common strategies of PBIS that can increase effectiveness for students with ASD. 3. Participants will be given the opportunity to explore and modify their school’s school wide or classroom positive supports for improved efficacy for students with ASD .
School Wide Positive Behavior Supports is an evidence based practice with research supporting its efficacy in schools. There is early research that indicates that students with significant needs, including students with ASD, also benefit from participating in School Wide Positive Behavior Supports at all tiers. For each component, this presentation will give specific examples of how common interventions and supports can be simply modified in how they are presented, taught, prompted or reinforced to increase effectiveness for students with ASD and other students for whom the universal and group supports have been previously unsuccessful.
In addition, participants in this session will be given the opportunity to examine their own Positive Behavior Interventions and Support implementation at the school and classroom levels and explore specific ways modifications can be made in order to increase its effectiveness for students with ASD and other significant disabilities and support needs at the universal and secondary tiers of intervention.
Learning how to effectively include students with ASD within the lower tiers of School Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports has multiple benefits. If more students with ASD successfully respond at the universal and secondary levels, some of the problem behaviors will decrease and fewer students and problems will need to be addressed through interventions at the intensive individual level. These students will also be able to be in the classroom for more opportunities for learning and academic progress. Finally, schools that are more effective for supporting students with more significant needs such as ASD will be more supportive settings for all students.
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Content Area: Behavior Issues and Supports
Kathy L. Gould, M.S.
Program Manager
Illinois Autism Partnership at Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago