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Social, Emotional, & Behavioral Challenges

1. Students with learning disabilities often face social, emotional, and behavioral challenges. These include difficulties with social skills, depression, anxiety, and behavioral issues. 2. Functional behavioral assessments and positive behavioral supports can help address behavioral challenges by determining triggers and replacing problem behaviors with desirable behaviors through environmental modifications and direct teaching. 3. Strategies like self-management, goal setting, and cognitive behavioral modification can help improve social competencies and manage behaviors. Behavior contracts, time-outs, attribution training, and reinforcement systems are also used.

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Social, Emotional, & Behavioral Challenges

1. Students with learning disabilities often face social, emotional, and behavioral challenges. These include difficulties with social skills, depression, anxiety, and behavioral issues. 2. Functional behavioral assessments and positive behavioral supports can help address behavioral challenges by determining triggers and replacing problem behaviors with desirable behaviors through environmental modifications and direct teaching. 3. Strategies like self-management, goal setting, and cognitive behavioral modification can help improve social competencies and manage behaviors. Behavior contracts, time-outs, attribution training, and reinforcement systems are also used.

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Chapter 6

SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, &


BEHAVIORAL CHALLENGES
Social Challenges

 1/3rd of students w/ learning


disabilities have social challenges.
 Social challenges are characteristic of
autism, Asperger’s.
 Lack sensitivity, poor perception of
social situations, suffer rejection, &
poor social traits.
 Can do well academically.
*Our job: help students learn how to respond appropriately
in social situations.
Emotional
EmotionalChallenges
Challenges

Relationship between Characteristics of


Learning Disabilities & Emotional Challenges
Emotional Challenges
 Difficult to focus  Depression
academically  Reaction to stress & frustration of
school demands.
 Loss of energy, Loss of interest in
 Internalizing: friends, Difficulty in concentration,
Feelings of hopelessness
 Refuse to learn, resist pressure,
cling to dependency, quickly
 Lack of Resiliency
discouraged, fear of success,  Need a support system
sadness, withdrawal. which increases
nonacademic talents
 Externalizing:  Anxiety
 Hostility, acting-out, excessive  Events beyond their
anger, fighting, defiance toward control are happening to
teachers. them.
 Feel hopeless and become
frozen & panicked because
of feelings of intense
Functional
Functional
Behavioral
Behavioral
Assessment
Assessment
& Positive
& Positive
Behavioral
Behavioral
Supports
Supports

FBA: determining what PBS:strategies to changes a


triggered the child's behavior. student’s behavior & increase
positive change.
ABC: antecedent, Steps for developing
behavior, positive behavioral
consequence. interventions:
Important Outcomes: 2. A desirable
3. Clear description of problem replacement behavior.
behavior.
4. Identification of when a problem
3. Modify the
behavior will/will not occur. environment.
5. Identification of the consequences
that result in the maintenance.
4. Teach the appropriate
6. Development/hypothesis of behaviors.
problematic behavior.
7. Collection of data.
Improving
ImprovingSocial
SocialCompetencies
Competencies
Self Perception: Scrapbook
Nonverbal Communication:
gestures, stance, facial
expression.
Social Maturity: role
playing, encourage
independence, problem
solving strategies, ethical
judgments.
Cognitive Learning for
Social Skills
Many students respond impulsively; act
without thinking.
• “What am I suppose to be doing?”
• “What are three possible solutions?”

Cognitive learning strategies can teach


students:
6. Stop & think before responding.
7. To verbalize & rehearse social responses.
8. To visualize & imagine the effect of their
behavior.
Behavioral Challenges

 Develop an effective behavioral


intervention plan.
 Positive learning environment.
 Errorless learning techniques:
 Fading: giving student maximum cues to
begin, then fades those cues away until
the student is independent at that task.
 Backward chaining: a reverse order of
things.
Making Academic Work Friendly

 Build choice in assignments.


 Where they sit to work.
 What they can write with.
 Use response cards.
 White board.
 Index cards.
 Travel assignments.
 Break a task into small steps.
Self Management Goal Setting
Strategies
 Students manage their  Model the strategy.
behavior.  Teacher assist in
 Clearly state writing the goal.
expectations.  Write own goals &
 Contracts for self monitor progress.
monitoring.
 Random checks.
 Praise!
Passive Aggressive Behaviors
•Combined passive &
aggressive behavior
 Recognize the passive
that is both
conforming &
aggressive behavior.
irritating to others.
 Avoid engaging in
•Behavior that is
more destructive to “begging” behavior.
inter personal
relationships than  Acknowledge normal
aggression.
•Acts of passive feelings of anger.
aggression that can
last a lifetime.
•Anger that is
expressed indirectly.
Behavior Management Strategies

 Contingency Contracting
 Written agreement between student &
teacher.
 Time-Out
 1-5 minutes, ignore the student, directly
engage the student in ongoing activities.
 Attribution Training
 Train students to attribute their successes
to their own efforts.
Behavior Management Strategies
continued…
 Cognitive Behavior Modification
 Talking aloud to themselves.
 Giving themselves instruction on what
they should be doing.
 Rewarding themselves verbally.
 Using Reinforcements
 Stars, stickers, tickets, tokens, prize box.
Case study: Mario, a student with
behavioral challenges
 5th grade
 Urinates on himself & others
 Becomes upset when people get close
& when he gets dirty.
 Has Asperger’s & ADHD.
 1 of 2 kids @ home.
 Doesn’t know father.
 Obsessed that if he gets dirty his
arms will fall off.
 Special interest in Superman.

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