Strategies for all Challenging Behaviors in General

Increasing Desired Behaviors

• Using intervention strategies that will increase desired behaviors is essential to developing positive outcomes.

• When planning strategies for increasing desire behaviors, it is important to consider the long-term implications of any proposed changes on the whole person. The primary focus is implementation of strategies to positive influence quality of life over time.

Decreasing Unwanted Behaviors

• When responding to inappropriate behaviors using punishment or negative consequences, it is critical to include positive reinforcement for acceptable behaviors as part of the intervention plan. Punishment or negative consequence alone will not improve behaviors.

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Management in general

• Structuring with physical organization

  • Arranging environmental variables to act as cognitive organizers

  • Giving suggestions for visual organization

• Structuring through routines and schedules

  • Teaching routines and procedures

  • Establishing schedules

    • Whole-class schedules

    • Individual schedules

• Structuring through Materials

  • Using assistive devices

  • Using picture cue

• Structuring through lesson presentation

  • Discrete trial format

  • Prompting fading procedures

  • Assessing student progress

• Structuring through teaching skills

  • Shaping

  • Chaining

  • Generalization training

  • Milieu teaching

  • Grouping