Moving Beyond Meltdowns Approach
Long Term Intervention
Step 1 --Comprehensive Assessment
- Presenting Problem Behavior
- Developmental History
- Medical History
- Social-Emotional Development Questionnaire
- Sensory Processing Questionnaire
- Process-Based Functional Assessment that includes both external and internal environments.
Step 2 --Develop Intervention Plan Content
- Foundations
- PBS
- DIR/Floortime
- Nurtured heart
- ACT
- Mindfulness
- Components
- Special Time
- Anticipatory Problem Solving
- Mindfulness
- Small steps
- Structure and Limits
Step 3 – Design the Instructional Sequences --Use Direct Instruction Response Locus Analysis
- Identify key ideas
- Introduce concepts and motor responses
- Present positive and negative examples
- Organize key ideas into tracks
- Start with something easy and build on that
- First identify and apply the motor habits
- Frequently ask for responses
- Establish generalization across person, places, mood
- Practice until mastery
- Internalize and integrate the newly taught habits
Step 4 --Teach the Skills – Use Behavior Skills Training Approach
- Model
- Instruct
- Rehearse
- Provide Feedback