Georgia PBS Interventions - Florida's Positive Behavior Support ...

Interventions:The following pages are in alphabetical order based on the intervention. Rather than pointing outwhich ones are applicable to children with autism, or learning disabilities, or emotional behaviordisorders they are just listed based on the needs of the child.Good classroom management looks at the need of the child and develops a plan based on the need. Notall children with autism need a sensory diet and not all children with attention deficit disorder need aspecial air filled disk on which to sit.The behavior support team is the key to determining a good behavioral intervention. If this teamincludes all the key people in the life of the child then a quality plan can be formed and shapedthroughout the child’s life. Remember it’s a dynamic process.Sometimes behaviors occur because the child is either not challenged or being asked to do repetitivetasks. An example of this is sorting bears. As a statewide presenter who visits numerous classroomsit is sad to see a kindergarten MID child sorting red, yellow, and blue bears and then go across town tothe high school and see a 17 year old MID student sorting red, yellow, and blue bears. For this reason,this book has some teaching techniques to help teach some higher level thinking skills to students inthe MOID, MID, Learning Disabilities, and Autistic learning range.Positive Interventions and Effective Strategies Riffel -© 2005 - 55 -