Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that impacts brain development causing an individual with ASD to experience persistent challenges with social communication and interaction, and repetitive and characteristic patterns of behaviour, interests or activities. Each child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) presents with unique needs that when unmet can result in them exhibiting behaviours that can disrupt their learning and that of others. Without the necessary knowledge and tools, educators can often find it difficult to meet the needs of their students effectively. Does this sound familiar? Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Step by Step Guide to Assessing, Managing and Preventing Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties is a highly practical book that can be used by educators in childcare, preschool, schools and community services to learn the evidence-based approach of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) to assess, manage and prevent challenging behaviours in children of all ages with ASD. Learn how complete a functional behaviour analysis to document behaviour incidents, identify triggers and determine the reasons for specific challenging behaviours. Consult the bank of proactive strategies that can be tailored to an individual child's environment to prevent triggers and promote positive ways of communicating, behaving and managing emotions. Develop an escalation profile to describe the different verbal and non-verbal signals the child exhibits as their levels of stress, anger and/or frustration increase, and determine strategies for responding to each escalation stage. Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for Students with ASD: A Step by Step Guide to Assessing, Managing and Preventing Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties provides templates, banks of practical strategies and a framework for developing a behaviour management plan so that all staff supporting a child can respond to challenging behaviours effectively and efficiently in a planned, safe and least disruptive manner. This book will educate, empower and enable you to help your child learn positive ways of behaving and managing their emotions, so they can spend more time learning and developing, and you can spend more time doing what you do best: teaching.