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BEHAVIOR SUPPORTS PAGE
The Pops Spedster site is home to an instructional system designed to meet the academic and community-based instructional needs of students with intellectual/cognitive impairments.
DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE INSTRUCTION (DAI), is a system of instruction that involves probing a student's present level of educational performance.
The results of the probe can be used to design individualized education plans that meet IDEA requirements.
Some ELL students and home-schooled students could also benefit from the materials being offered on this site.
Pops Spedster And Company is an Oregon-based 501c3 non-profit, registered with the Oregon Secretary of State's office.
DISCLAIMER -The Special Education resources contained on this site are based on my 13 years of experience teaching medically fragile students in adaptive life skills public school classrooms.Pops Spedster And Company makes no representations about the accuracy of information from third party sources contained on this site, nor do we accept any responsibility for the use of this information.While we aspire to present best practices in serving a medically fragile student population, scientific developments and research have created a fertile environment of approaches to instruction that have resulted in a changing pedagogical discipline that works to improve the lives of people with developmental disabilities.- James M. Kemp/ AKA Pops Spedster. |
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IEP PLANNING RESOURCES AND APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
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Memorials
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BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION SUPPORTS
ARE APPROPRIATE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH BEHAVIORS THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE IN THEMSELVES. IN THE CASE OF AUTISM, MANY INDIVIDUALS AFFECTED BY THIS DISORDER HAVE A HARD TIME RECOGNIZING MEANING IN THE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS OF OTHERS.
RIGHT CLICK ON THE IMAGE THAT FOLLOWS TO PRINT COPIES,
Because adults with disabilities often do not possess the cognitive ability to manage their own behavior, experts in the behavioral sciences have devised various programs to address the behavioral needs of people with impaired cognitive functioning. Often, these programs come down to one simple concept – reward positive behavior constantly and replace unwanted behaviors with socially acceptable behaviors.
In a developmentally appropriate continuum, however attention should be given to the cognitive abilities of each individual adult. In this model, assessment of the adult’s ability to manage personal behavior should be the basis for developing an instructional plan that considers individual cognitive abilities.
Under IDEA, we often ask the question, “Does this person have behaviors which impede his or her own learning and/ or the learning of others?” If the answer is that the person does have such behaviors, the statute requires that we initiate various functional behavior assessments to determine the cause of the undesirable behavior, to determine what environmental conditions exist that reinforce the undesirable behavior and to determine if the behaviors are the related to the individual’s specific disability.
A behavior specialist then typically writes a positive behavior support plan for that individual student and for staff dealing with that student. Data is collected in the process, and used to help the instructional team promote that evasive quality – the self-regulating person with cognitive developmental impairment.
Adaptive Life Skill (ALS) settings however, attempt to duplicate and/ or simulate real world experiences and settings. Academic skills are emphasized only in a functional context in terms of the extent to which the academic skill is involved in daily functional routines.
Where undesirable behaviors are concerned in the ALS setting, attention should be given to emphasizing and increasing the adult student’s awareness of social context and the need to engage in positive, pro-social behavior in this environment which also emphasizes vocational skills. In short, in the ALS setting, the social fabric of instruction is no longer reading and writing, as much as it is simply getting along with fellow workers in a cooperative setting.
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SOMETIMES, IT HELPS WHEN WE CAN NAME HOW WE ARE FEELING,
THESE ARE BODY LANGUAGE SYMBOLS FOR SOME OF OUR FEELINGS.
RIGHT CLICK ON EACH CARTOON TO PRINT COPIES FOR STUDENTS.
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RIGHT CLICK ON THIS QUIZ TO PRINT COPIES FOR STUDENTS.
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SOMETIMES WE FEEL HURT WHEN OTHERS TEASE US. SOMETIMES WE HURT OTHERS BY TEASING THEM.
THE OLD SAYING GOES "STICKS AND STONES CAN BREAK MY BONES. BUT WORDS CAN NEVER HURT ME." IS THAT OLD SAYING TRUE? OR CAN WORDS HURT US?
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RIGHT CLICK AND PRINT OUT THIS EXERCISE ABOUT TEASING.
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Home of Jonny Cue Comics. -
Watch a Youtube video of an animated version of a Jonny Cue Comic.
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is also home of "Spout's First Note".
Watch an early, animated version of the book.
This video has gone through many different versions. It is based on a children's book written in 1999, for a graduate level class in Special Education, at Western Oregon University and taught by Dr. Mickey Pardew.
Many of the versions of this video are published on our YouTube channel
with the user name Pops Spedster And Company.
Like and subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Here is a link to a stop motion animated version's introduction video on You Tube - https://youtu.be/ugB8RB5kt8k
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Since 2008, Pops Spedster And Company has published content for the developmental disabilities community.
THIS SITE CONTAINS MANY WORKSHEETS THAT CAN BE PRINTED OUT BY AND FOR STUDENTS.ALL WORKSHEETS ON THIS SITE ARE FREE, BUT PLEASE DO NOT CLAIM A COPYRIGHT ON THESE FREE MATERIALS. |
TABLE OF CONTENTSto the entire Pops Spedster network._________________________________________________________________ |
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Updated 04/27/2022
Contact us at popspedster@gmail.com
Pops Spedster And Company is an Oregon-based 501c3 non-profit, registered with the Oregon Secretary of State's office.
Information about our company can be found at -
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The Lemon Aid Network is a wholly-owned business subsidiary of Pops Spedster And Company.
Copyright 2022 - James M. Kemp