{"id":3500,"date":"2016-07-28T08:44:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T12:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2016-07-28T08:44:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T12:44:55","slug":"positive-behavior-supports-72816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3500","title":{"rendered":"Positive Behavior Supports, 7\/28\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a parent of a child with often extreme emotional &amp; behavioral\u00a0issues, I&#8217;m continually searching out the best methods and technologies to support her journey into greater emotional management. Whether it&#8217;s to help build conversation skills, manage angry outbursts, or navigate fears, I&#8217;m always looking for tidbits of information that I can implement into our routine, or apps that I can make available for her use.<\/p>\n<p>In this ever-constant pursuit of making things better for her (and me), I recently attended a conference on\u00a0 Positive Behavior Supports. Though tough to summarize much of the complex and thorough information that was provided, I was able to walk away with a few key notes that are definitely worth sharing, regardless of disability, needs, age, or anything else!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Challenging behavior happens when the person is not happy. He\/she uses behavior to change the current environment. Therefore, it&#8217;s vital to ask\u00a0 (before the problem behaviors start) &#8220;what makes you happy?&#8221; And it&#8217;s vital to figure out how the person shows that she is happy (i.e. smiling, rocking, sounds, or gestures).<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s imperative to offer choices &#8211; choices are necessary to help overcome challenging behaviors. And then reinforce the positive redirection of an activity (when a problem behavior is interrupted).<\/li>\n<li>Change terms from &#8220;bad&#8221; to &#8220;mad&#8221;- when problem behaviors are indicating anger, ask &#8220;Do you need something?&#8221; or &#8220;Do you need to talk?&#8221; or &#8220;Why are you really mad?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay tuned for updates on apps that have proven helpful!<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3500\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a parent of a child with often extreme emotional &amp; behavioral\u00a0issues, I&#8217;m continually searching out the best methods and technologies to support her journey into greater emotional management. Whether it&#8217;s to help build conversation skills, manage angry outbursts, or navigate fears, I&#8217;m always looking for tidbits of information that I can implement into our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,5,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3520,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions\/3520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}