Groups will be held via Zoom. An email to register for this event via Eventbrite will be distributed 10/5/20. If you have any additional questions, please contact either mojgan.pourmand@eastersealsucp.com or katherine.howell@eastersealsucp.com.
This 7-hour training session will review evidence-based strategies for assessing and treating challenging behaviors commonly exhibited by individuals with developmental disabilities including Autism Spectrum Disorder. Participants will be introduced to a variety of a tools that can be used to assess the function or cause of challenging behavior. Registration now open.
This 7-hour training session will review evidence-based strategies for assessing and treating challenging behaviors commonly exhibited by individuals with developmental disabilities including Autism Spectrum Disorder. Participants will be introduced to a variety of a tools that can be used to assess the function or cause of challenging behavior. Registration now open.
Written by: Danielle Kessinger, M.Ed, BCBA, LBA In Applied Behavior Analysis, we help individuals decrease challenging behaviors by implementing a variety of interventions. The challenging behavior an individual might display, is their form of communication to get what they want/need. A method to prevent the reoccurrence of challenging behaviors is to implement replacement behaviors. Replacement…
There is a widely held belief that individuals with developmental disabilities (DDs) are insensitive to pain/discomfort or have a high-threshold for pain. Thankfully, recent research has begun to challenge this notion. Instead, it is now becoming clear that individuals with DD do experience pain but may express these feelings differently as compared to neurotypical individuals.…
Antecedent Based Interventions (ABI) are a type of behavioral intervention designed to prevent challenging behavior. With ABI, we assess conditions of an environment, such as the location, materials, noise level, instructions, and people present. We also assess consequences that are reinforcing interfering behavior, such as the delivery of a desired item after a problem behavior…