Addressing the challenging behavior of children with high functioning autism Asperger syndrome in the classroom : a guide for teachers and parents

How do teachers and parents of children with autism address a child's social skills? And what do they do about problem behaviors? This book provides possible explanations for these behaviours, and a wealth of practical help for both teachers and parents to address them. Teachers learn how to create environmental supports and how to incorporate specific teaching strategies. Students with autism learn the new skills they might need, and ways of making their behavior more acceptable. This book is full of practical tips on how to tackle different kinds of challenging behaviors both in the classroom and outside it. Rebecca Moyes takes on one of the biggest challenges in the classroom: problem behaviors. She not only evaluates explanations for these behaviors, she explains why traditional approaches to managing poor behavior do not work for children with autism and Asperger's syndrome. She supplies practical tips on how to tackle the problem behaviors both in the classroom and outside it, including many individual examples. She also incorporates a case study with a behavior support plan which contains environmental supports to strengthen teaching strategies Acknowledgements 10 Preface 11 Chapter One: Traditional Approaches 13 Chapter Two: Adopting a Team Approach to Writing a Behavioral Support Plan 19 Chapter Three: What Causes Misbehavior in Children with Autism? 39 Chapter Four: Antecedent Strategies 57 Chapter Five: Rewards and Motivators 93 Chapter Six: Consequential Strategies 117 Chapter Seven: Evaluation for Effectiveness 135 References 149 Index 151 "For many children with autism, problems associated with behavior in the classroom can be expected."