Day 13 of ASD De-escalation Tips: Know the Learner

 

Students who periodically escalate have an unfair disadvantage as they transition to new teachers during the span of their education.  Most often long before the educator actually meets the learner, they hear of the horror stories, they hear of the tales of disruption and destruction, and they hear of the struggles that they …

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Day 12 of ASD De-escalation Tips: Resources for Communication

Let’s talk more resources to make life easier!

A student’s escalation cycle can have a great amount of detail, from the specific observable behaviors at each level to the carefully crafted interventions.  I shared with you earlier this great visual to help represent the big picture of a child’s escalation and …

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Day 11 of ASD De-escalation Tips: The Perfect Consequence

 

Your room looks like a small tornado just ran through it.  The chairs are tipped over, books and paper clutter the floor, and your ears are still ringing from the screaming.   The well planned lesson you had put together was ruined by another escalation and now the rest of …

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Day 7 of ASD De-escalation Tips: Empower the Learner

 

When staff go through the diligent process of filling out an escalation cycle they need to remember to involve the most important person on the team: the student.  As thought out as the staff’s approaches might be to support de-escalation, they can still be …

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Day 6 of ASD De-escalation Tips: Tantrum vs. Escalation

 

If you want to know how to best support a child with autism who is exhibiting challenging behavior you have to know what you are looking at.   The above explanation does a great job of simplifying that process, but in practice it is not always easy.  A behavior that starts off as …

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