A Demonstration of Individualized Positive Behavior Support Interventions by Head Start Staff to Address Children's Challenging Behavior

Young children with autism and behavioral challenges are at great risk for lives that are characterized by social isolation and segregated placements. These restrictive placements often occur when the child’s challenging behavior interferes with successful adaptation in educational, therapeutic, and community environments. In this article, positive behavior support is described as a process that may be used to understand and intervene effectively with the challenging behavior of young children with autism. The article describes the history, empirical support, and implementation steps of positive behavior support. A case study is provided to illustrate successful application of the process.

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Use of Positive Behavior Support to Address the Challenging Behavior of Young Children Within a Community Early Childhood Program

Topics in Early Childhood Special Education ◽

10.1177/0271121410372676 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 68-79 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

Kwang-Sun Cho Blair ◽

Lise Fox ◽

Rochelle Lentini

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Young Children ◽

Positive Behavior Support ◽

Challenging Behavior ◽

Positive Behavior ◽

Early Childhood Program ◽

Behavior Support ◽

Childhood Program

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Using Positive Behavior Support Procedures in Head Start Classrooms to Improve School Readiness: A Group Training and Behavioral Coaching Model

NHSA Dialog ◽

10.1080/15240750902774676 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 88-103 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Edward G. Feil ◽

Hill Walker ◽

Herbert Severson ◽

Annemieke Golly ◽

John R. Seeley ◽

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Keyword(s):

Head Start ◽

School Readiness ◽

Positive Behavior Support ◽

Positive Behavior ◽

Group Training ◽

Behavior Support ◽

Coaching Model ◽

Behavioral Coaching

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Instructors' Reflection on Positive Behavior Support in RULES Foundation's EFL Classroom

Langkawi Journal of The Association for Arabic and English ◽

10.31332/lkw.v5i1.1228 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 67

Author(s):

Muhammad Kurniawan Rachman ◽

Hanna Hanna ◽

Aris Badara

Keyword(s):

Adult Learners ◽

Positive Behavior Support ◽

Challenging Behavior ◽

Language Education ◽

Positive Behavior ◽

Behavior Support ◽

Teaching Management ◽

The Future ◽

Support Students ◽

Teaching Application

Students’ challenging behavior becomes one of the big issues in education nowadays and language education is not an exception. Therefore, preparing teachers insight towards the issue is essential as the first step to prevent the issue grows in the future. Positive Behavior Support appears as one of the solutions to this issue in developing countries such as Australia and Singapore in 2011. Supporting this system, the researcher perceived that it is vital to apply this system in the EFL classroom in Indonesia. This paper aims to investigate the instructors’ Reflection using Positive Behavior Support (PBS) in EFL classroom. The research used qualitative study and involved 3 instructors in an institution which applies EFL teaching as the program, also conducted an interview after the workshop and teaching to find more detail information in the data obtained. The finding of the study indicated that PBS in form of workshop positively supported the instructors’ teaching application when they were experiencing real teaching class situation using the support system. The instructors also perceived that having PBS workshop added their knowledge to support students’ behavior in their classroom and in the future positively. Unfortunately, two instructors denoted that they could not apply all the PBS parts in their teaching application since most of the students are adult learners. However, the instructors reported that through the workshop and teaching period they perceived a change in students’ positive behavior and PBS changes their paradigm toward teaching management system.

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