Meme Hieneman

College Bound A Journey to Independence 0

College Bound: A Journey to Independence

College Bound: A Journey to Independence Our son, Clayton, started college this fall along with three of his closest friends. Originally, we planned to create a supported living residence for...

Positive Behavior Support as a Family Affair 0

Positive Behavior Support as a Family Affair

Positive Behavior Support as a Family Affair Positive behavior support (PBS) has been shown to be an effective approach for supporting children’s behavior. It involves proactive, teaching, and management strategies...

How Positive Behavior Support Can Work in a School Setting 0

How Positive Behavior Support Can Work In A School Setting

Working Together: Family-School Collaboration in Positive Behavior Support Positive behavior support (PBS) combines the principles of applied behavior analysis with person, family, and system-centered practices to improve behavior and quality...

Using Visual Strategies To Improve Behavior 0

Using Visual Strategies to Improve Behavior

Using Visual Strategies To Improve Behavior Children with special needs sometimes have difficulty remembering what is expected of them or deciphering cues from their social and physical environment. Frustration and...

Monitoring Progress 0

Monitoring Progress

Monitoring Progress This is the final installment of a six-article series on positive behavior support PBS. The previous articles focused on identifying goals and behaviors of concern, gathering information to...

Using Your Plan Teaching Skills 0

Using Your Plan: Teaching Skills

Using Your Plan: Teaching Skills Once broad goals and behaviors of concern are identified, an assessment has been completed to determine the patterns affecting your child’s behavior, and the overall...

Analyzing Patterns 0

Analyzing Patterns

After identifying broad goals and routines you would like to address for your child… and beginning to track specific behaviors that you want to increase and/or decrease, the next step...

Identifying Goals 0

Identifying Goals

Positive behavior support is an individualized process for improving children’s behavior in family and community life. It involves the following steps. This is the first of a series of six...