Teaching Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders

The Components of a Behaviour Plan (cont’d)
• Roles and responsibilities
Appendix H
< Identify the roles and responsibilities of all persons involved in implementing the plan.
• Strategies to transfer skills
< Identify strategies that will be used to teach students to transfer skills learned to other
environments, people, etc.
• Response protocol
< Identify a planned response to:
S defuse the behaviour. (Interventions focus on preventing future problem behaviours and
keeping the student on task.)
S deal with out of control behaviours that pose a risk of injury to the student or others.
(Interventions focus on safety)
S support recovery after the behaviour. (Interventions focus on re-establishing routines.
This includes a re-entry plan, which may be to a specific activity, the classroom, or
school)
< Identify the persons responsible at each stage of the response protocol.
• Evaluation Plan and Schedule
< Identify how you will evaluate the plan’s effectiveness.
< Monitor the intervention and evaluate the outcomes.
< Determine a schedule for reviewing/modifying the plan. Include dates and criteria for
changing/fading the plan.
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