1 Problem Solving Structured Teaching Model
Dec 14, 2015
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What is Under the Waterline
Problem Behaviors
Anxiety
Frustration
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Lack of understanding
Lack of predictability
Lack of structure
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Understand Autism
• What is the reason for the behavior– Difficulties Communication – Difficulties Sensory– Difficulties Organizational Difficulties– Difficulties Need for Sameness– Difficulties Social Difficulties– Difficulty with Skill Mastery
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TEACCH Interventions
Teach Emotional Regulation by: •Physical Structure•Visual cues/schedules•Sensory Strategies•First then Strategies•Understanding the Autism•?????
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Does the student understand expectations:
– What am I doing, where am I going?– How much, how long, how to?– When am I finished– What happens next?
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What is in it for Me
• Reinforcement
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Strategies to Help1. Be Flexible and Offer Choices
2. Calm place/Develop routines when upset
3. Wait Card/Place to do things
4. If the child is upset stop talking and use nonverbal means to communicate.
5. Prepare ahead of time for transitions and changes
6. Make the beginnings and endings very clear
7. Make EXERCIZE part of the daily routine
8. Visual cues and schedules
9. Use child’s interest to motivate
10.Turn down lights and, keep noise to a minimum
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14Ruth Fuller and Sue McCarther
Autism Behavior
PROBLEM:Adapted from form developed by Ruth Fuller and Sue McCarter TEACCH, North Carolina.
How autism could effect this behavior:
•Communication
•Reciprocal Social Interaction
•Repetitive Behavior
•Sensory Issues
•Motor Planning
Elements from structured teaching that could help: