Teaching Behaviorally Disordered Students offers important information about how to plan, organize, and manage instructional programs for behaviorally disordered students in a variety of settings as well as suggestions for assessing your students' progress.
Contents
An Overview of Behavioral Disorders
- Who Are They? Behavioral Disorders Defined
- Prevalence of Behavioral Disorders
- Types and Characteristics of Behavioral Disorders
- Foundations of Effective Teaching
- Emerging Quality Instructional Practices in Special Education
- Preferred Strategies in Service Delivery
Assessment of Behaviorally Disordered Students
- Purposes of Assessment
- Models of Assessment
- Assessing Behavior Problems
- Assessing Social Skills
- Assessing Academic Skills
- Determining Eligibility for Special Education
- Emerging Procedures in Assessing Behaviorally Disordered Students
Basic Principles of Behavior Management
- Assumptions of Behavior Management
- The Functional Analysis of Behavior
- Behavior Management Interventions
- Increasing Appropriate Behaviors
- Decreasing Inappropriate Behaviors
- Alternative and Complementary Procedures to Punishment
Teaching for Mainstreaming: Generalizing Improved Performance
- Generalization Defined
- Strategies for Promoting Generalization
Teaching Academic Skills to Behaviorally Disordered Students
- Goals and Assumptions of Academic Instruction
- Direct Instruction as a Preferred Practice
- Curriculum Content
- Additional Considerations
Teaching Social Skills to Behaviorally Disordered Students
- Selecting Social Skills
- Teaching Social Skills
- Generalization of Social Skills Training
- A Review of Selected Social Skills Programs
- Accepts
- Integrating Social Skills Training in the Classroom
Teaching Behaviorally Disordered Students in the Regular Classroom
- Sharing the Responsibility for Teaching Behaviorally Disordered Students
- Basics of Classroom Management
- Group Behavior Management Strategies
- Individual Behavior Management Strategies
- Managing Academic Instruction
- Building-Based Support Teams
- Working with Support Personnel
Teaching Behaviorally Disordered Students in Resource Room Programs
- What Is a Resource Room Program?
- Model Resource Programs for Behaviorally Disordered Students
- Curriculum and Instruction in the Resource Program
- Special Considerations for Resource Program Teachers
- Toward a Consultative Role for the Resource Teacher
- Promoting Generalization from the Resource Room to the Regular Classroom
Self-contained Classrooms for Behaviorally Disordered Students
- Who Is Placed in Self-contained Classrooms?
- Design and Organization of a Self-contained Classroom
- Behavior Management Programs for Self-contained Classrooms
- Management of Noncompliance and Aggression
- Social Skills Training in a Self-contained Classroom
- Academic Instruction in a Self-contained Classroom
- Generalization to the Regular Classroom
Working with Parents of Behaviorally Disordered Children
- Myths About Parents of Behaviorally Disordered Children
- Who Should Work with Parents?
- Working with Parents
- Difficult Parents
- Child Abuse and Neglect
Legal Issues in Educating Behaviorally Disordered Children
- Historical Background
- Resolving Disagreements over Identification, Evaluation, or Educational Placement
- Legal Issues in the Use of Behavior Management
- Student Records
- School Discipline
- Medication in the Schools
- Liability of Educators
Index
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