Using Your Plan: Teaching Skills
Using Your Plan: Teaching Skills Once broad goals and behaviors of concern are identified, an assessment has been completed to determine the patterns affecting your child’s behavior, and the overall...
Behavior
Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) Know the Signs, Characteristics & How to Help
SPD Know the Signs, Characteristics & How to Help What do you think when you see the following? A child crying in the corner hiding behind a chair. A child...
Mate Crime Spotting the Signs of Fake Friendship
Mate Crime Spotting the Signs of Fake Friendship Sadly, we live in a society where cruelty towards vulnerable people takes place. This can be easily recognized in the form of...
Designing Strategies to Improve Your Child’s Behavior
Designing Strategies to Improve Your Child’s Behavior The process begins with identifying broad goals, choosing routines, and defining behaviors of concern. Next, you track behavior and determine the patterns that...
Considering a Service Dog? Meet My Monty
Having grown up a dog-lover, the concept of bringing a Service Dog into my life was an intriguing idea, yet, something I thought I would only ever contemplate. Then I...
Analyzing Patterns
After identifying broad goals and routines you would like to address for your child… and beginning to track specific behaviors that you want to increase and/or decrease, the next step...
Different Types of Soy Products: Are They Safe for Children?
Over the years, studies have shown conflicting evidence about soy products. Some studies have claimed that soy is the panacea for many health ailments, a superfood that is the solution...
Identifying Goals
Positive behavior support is an individualized process for improving children’s behavior in family and community life. It involves the following steps. This is the first of a series of six...
5 Ways Parents Can Infuse Positivity in Children with ODD
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a childhood disorder that is a frequent pattern of angry, uncooperative behavior, which often results in outward hostility, typically displayed by verbally aggressive behaviors toward...
Unified Sports: A Great Way to Start Inclusion in a Fun and Positive Way
There are Unified Sports Programs all across the United States that are designed to promote, among other things, inclusion, acceptance, physical activity, friendship, respect, and understanding. We at Parenting Special...
