activity schedules: behavior support strategy that ends nagging

Instructing, Transferring and Fading Support

Activity Schedules: Behavior Support Strategy That Ends Nagging

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How we get students to take action:Prompts=hints that can be provided in any sensory form

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The power of speech-

Put yourself in a line by the month and day of your birth (not

year) WITHOUT SAYING A THING

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Birthday Order

The limitations of speech

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Talk

Physically guideWhen you want an action-silence after one

initial direction

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When to talk, when to physically guide

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When you want a verbal answer

What is an Activity Schedule?

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Activity Schedules are seen in two forms

Organizer

Task trainer

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Organizer of time

For a student, let’s say at age four, with first activity schedule:1) 3 to 5 activities2) 2 to 3 already known to student3) use photos if you are working a preschooler4) select age-appropriate activities5) End the first schedule with a preferred treat/activity that is not usually available6)include get, play, put away8) Include a social interaction task9) Activities with clear endings10) Plan for variety and novelty

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Organizer of time

You will need to teach children:

1)how to choose reward

2)how to sequence their won activities

3)deliver their own rewards

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Task Trainer

Task Analysis-breaking down

skills into small steps

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GRADUATED GUIDANCEACTIVITY

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v0GOf3Af3s#

GRADUATED GUIDANCEACTIVITY

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1)hand2)wrist3)forearm4)upper arm5)elbow6)shoulder tap

After One Initial DirectionFrom Most to LeastFrom Behind Student

GRADUATED GUIDANCEACTIVITY

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1.Print and cut round outside of cootie catcher

2. Fold in half and in half again3. Open out, turn over so top is blank and fold each corner into the middle

4. Turn over and repeat5.Turn over so you can see the pictures

6.Slide your thumb and your finger behind 2 of the pictures and press together to touch

7.Turn over and repeat above for the other two pictures

When to use a timer

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Timers

How to transition from

pictures to iconsfrom icons to printed words

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From one

form of visual

prompt to

another

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From one

form of visual prompt

to another

How Can an Activity Schedule Increase Social Skills?

Opportunity-

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How Can an Activity Schedule Increase Problem Solving Skills?

Opportunity

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How Can an Activity Schedule Be tied to A Motiviational System?

ChecksMeasures of completed tasks

Tokens

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The Goal is Independence

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FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION

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Activity Schedules for Children with Autism: Teaching Independent Behavior by Lynn McClannahan and Patricia Krantz

http://www.bergerlearning.com/docs/BergerLearning_ActivityScheduleOptimized.pdf

Resources and References

FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION

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Books by Mary Hull

Conversations With Paraeducators: Optimizing Your Work As The Other Grown-Up In The Classroom

The Paraeducator: The Other Grown-Up in the Elementary Classroom

MaryWHull@gmail.com