We are still in the ever important staff training phase! You’ve shared the information and had the staff members observe you implementing the intervention. Now it’s showtime, ladies & gents. It’s time for your staff members to get down and dirty into the intervention. Roll up your sleeves and let them in on the action. […]
Yesterday I climbed high up on my soapbox and gave you the “you must and can make time for staff training” speech. Maybe I sold you. Maybe I didn’t. You still might have that nagging voice in the back of your head, “but it’s impossible to find time to train staff.” Hopefully, we will be able […]
Sometimes some of our methods, interventions, and strategies seem just down right wacky and weird. We surely can’t blame others from not understanding the method to our madness if we don’t freaken share the methods with them. I know we are often stuck in situations with very limited opportunities and time to train our staff […]
You are a behavioral rock star. You’ve taken baseline data, identified the function, selected an impeccable intervention, and even did the heavy lifting and implemented that intervention with OCD like perfection. Behaviors are down, morale is up. Life is good. But before you whip up a batch of mango margaritas and throw your feet, you […]
You’ve hit the behavioral jackpot. Through a cunning combo of reinforcing an appropriate replacement behavior and using a function based intervention – you have reduced and maybe even eliminated all together a problem behavior. Insert victory dance here. First things first – tell yourself that you rock. Tell yourself you are amazing and awesome and did […]