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- Faculty:
- Kathy Morris
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 11 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Nov 11, 2019
Description
Outline
Functions of a Meltdown
- Tantrum vs. meltdown
- Stages of a meltdown
- Sensory issues vs. behavior issues
- Meltdown intervention video
Sensory Strategies
- Easy-to-use sensory tools and apps to calm
- Overstimulation and sensory breakdowns
- Therapy session and classroom structure for optimal learning
Executive Functioning Strategies
- Visual cues, music and software designed to increase attention and focus
- High interest areas to strengthen motivation and engagement
- Visual reminders for routines and predictability
- Visual structures to promote organization
Self-Regulation Strategies
- Video modeling, t-charts, social stories, social scripts, emotions charts to develop self-control
- Tools that promote self-monitoring of behavior
- Power cards and visual checklists as powerful incentives to change behavior
Social/Emotional Communication Strategies
- Social scripts and social stories to develop social interaction
- Video modeling and role planning to demonstrate appropriate interactions
- First person stories for positive behavior changes and affirmations
Explosive Behavior Strategies
- Recognize the warning signs of a meltdown in order to prevent it
- Surprise cards, change of schedule cues and transition markers to alleviate anxiety
- Visual cues to depict expected behavior
- Converting the verbal to a visual
Techniques for After the Meltdown
- Strategies for instructional consequences
- Chart appropriate/inappropriate behaviors
- Activities for reviewing behaviors when calm
- Cartooning to facilitate feedback
- Strategies for providing systematic feedback
- Reinforcement for communication strategies
- Identify feelings and review behavior
Hands-on Activities
- Demonstrate video of a child having meltdown
- Appropriate and meaningful replacement behaviors for physical aggression
- Instructional consequences for a meltdown
Faculty
Kathy Morris, M.Ed., B.S. Related seminars and products: 8
Director/Owner
igivuWings
Kathy Morris, M.Ed., B.S., has had over 42 years of experience working with children and adolescents with severe behavioral difficulties including those with autism, ADHD, and executive dysfunction. Her consulting firm, igivuWings, specializes in autism and behavioral issues. Kathy works directly with families, educators, counselors, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, and medical professionals throughout the world.
She has been a speech therapist, teacher for self-contained programs, resource teacher and first grade teacher. Kathy was also a diagnostician/supervisor for all grade levels. She was a LIFE Skills/autism/behavior/assistive technology consultant at a Texas education service center before leaving to start her own business in 1999.
A prolific speaker, Kathy has keynoted many national/international conferences. She is a frequent guest on a local news program promoting research-based techniques for working with children and adolescents with ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and executive functioning differences.
Her video, Facilitating the Classroom Learning of Students with Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism, Grades K-6, has been an addition for campus and district staff developments as well as for those in clinical practice. In addition, she has an audio CD, Practical Strategies for Working with Students with Social Cognitive Differences in the General Education Classroom.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kathy Morris maintains a private practice. She has authored an audio product and a DVD product which are published by the Bureau of Education & Research. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Kathy Morris is the mother of adult children with autism spectrum disorders.
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