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IEP Goal Development For Students in the BBTIPC

K. Plummer Site — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 19:25:01 +0000

The initial goal of the therapeutic program is to increase student engagement and productivity over the course of the school day. Students who are new to the program should have goals that reflect their increase in engagement and productivity (as measured by the tolerance, engagement and participation scale) by setting benchmarks of percentages of time that the student…

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Socializing Instead of Working – Visual Feedback System

K. Plummer Site — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 18:14:27 +0000

Visual Support for Comprehension Guide

Please also see: Visual Feedback System – Program Guidelines

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Promoting Engagement and Comprehension

K. Plummer Site — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:05:14 +0000

Measuring and supporting student engagement is important in student programming. The effort put into designing lessons and teaching in general will have little benefit if the students aren’t engaged. This article includes Guidelines for Promoting Engagement and Comprehension…

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The Relationship Between Mood, Memory, Perception and Behavior

K. Plummer Site — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 06:01:37 +0000

Basic behavior management programs attempt to understand and change behavior by using an ABC (antecedent, behavior, consequence) system of analysis. With that system, behavior problems are analyzed by studying the antecedents (events prior to the target behavior) and consequences (the outcome or what follows the target behavior), and then forming a hypothesis to explain how the target behavior is triggered and what consequences serve to maintain the behavior…

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Shaping Student Identity

K. Plummer Site — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 16:57:19 +0000

It has been shown that a teacher’s narrative about a student—what the teacher thinks a student is like, what kind of person the teacher thinks the student is, what the teacher believes is the reason that the student does what (s)he does—influences the way the teacher interacts with that student, the attributions the teacher makes about that student’s behavior, and the teacher’s expectations of that student…

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Daily School To Home Report: ADHD Program Guidelines And Daily Chart

K. Plummer Site — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 17:41:32 +0000

Sometimes it is important to provide a daily report of progress for use at home. This is helpful for medication management, for example. Often, to arrive at the optimal medication type and dosage, a great deal of experimentation and adjustment is required. It is customary for the physician to set up a series of drug trials and make adjustments based on the child’s behavioral response…

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Shaping Student Identity – Program Monitoring

K. Plummer Site — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:10:42 +0000

Students arrive at school at a young age with their identity already clearly formed. However, the school years have a tremendous impact on further shaping of identity. The way we choose to respond to students can further develop a positive identity, undermine a positive identity, further develop a negative identity, or change a negative identity into a positive one…

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The Plus Five Approach to Therapeutic Intervention Programs

K. Plummer Site — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 15:33:06 +0000

Students with emotional and behavioral disabilities are placed in behavior management and therapeutic programs to remediate a wide range of social/emotional deficits. If we were to create an arbitrary scale of functioning that places the typical child with typical social/emotional functioning at the “zero” point, representing “no deficits in need of treatment”, then children placed in behavior management and therapeutic programs would score on the negative side of zero, at -5 on a -5 to +5 scale (on the extreme end of poor functioning, many needs and deficits)…

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Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NVLD)

K. Plummer Site — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 12:41:01 +0000

The NVLD student is easily lost, looking confused, after just getting started on an assignment, because of their poor ability to mental map and maintain a view of the “big picture” and understand the contribution of the parts that they are supposed to be working on…

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Student Developed ADHD Strategies

K. Plummer Site — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:44:47 +0000

The following set of strategies was developed by a group of ADHD students in grades four through six. The students developed strategies while working in an ADHD group, they tried their strategies between group meetings, and listed below are the strategies that they found worked the best…

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ADHD Program Recommendations – General Guidelines

K. Plummer Site — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:22:42 +0000

The ADHD child’s tolerance for school work diminishes quickly on some days. They get tired, frustrated, and overwhelmed by how much they have to do, they lose their concentration, and then stop working…

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