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ODE 8-2024, Updated Oregon Department of Education Procedures on Reporting Restraint and Seclusion
On December 22, 2023, the Oregon Department of Education submitted an update regarding the procedures for reporting restraint and seclusion. This update received approval from the Department of Education on February 15, 2024, and officially came into effect on...
A How-to: Creating Social Stories
What is a Social Story? Social Stories are a popular intervention strategy created by Carole Gray in 1989. They are used to teach children, adolescents, and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) different social situations by describing and explaining appropriate...
Avoiding Power Struggles
Communicate respect and promote dignity. These positive interaction strategies are the foundations of Safety-Care® and encourage therapeutic rapport. We all know, in the field of human services, rapport is everything. Having rapport with fellow staff and individuals...
How ABA Techniques Impact Student Success
The study of Applied Behavior Analysis focuses on making effective and socially significant behavior changes. Practitioners and researchers in the field work on identifying behaviors to increase or decrease and the environmental circumstances that will help to make...
The Good Behavior Game Article Review
If you work with groups of people, then you’re probably familiar with or actively using group contingencies. When supporting individuals in a group setting, minimizing disruptive behaviors and maximizing desirable behaviors is paramount to keeping things manageable....
Responding to Behavioral Challenges in the Classroom – a QBS Feature in Psychology Today
Key Points Teachers and educators across the country are having to deal with more behavioral challenges in the classroom than ever before, all of which cause a variety of obstacles toward creating and maintaining safe and productive learning environments A recent...
How To Implement ABA Techniques In The Classroom
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) strategies are commonly known for their effectiveness in managing behavior across settings, most specifically they are known for their effectiveness in supporting individuals with autism. However,...
Teach to the Challenge
Educators, parents, and community members are consistently aiming to teach, support, and model, behavior for the children that they are around and work with. The 2020-2021 school year primary challenge included virtual and hybrid learning models for the students,...
Promoting the COVID-19 Vaccine in A Vaccine Resistant World
COVID-19 has changed the world, and we have all experienced those changes in a variety of ways. For some of us that meant working, or learning, from home, for others, it meant being distant from loved ones, while others lost jobs and businesses, and many more have...
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