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Lori Leininger Certified Brain Injury Specialist (CBIS) PANDA Minnesota ABE Disability Specialists

The Hidden Disability: Brain Injury Boosting Student Progress through Positive Behavioral Interventions. Lori Leininger Certified Brain Injury Specialist (CBIS) PANDA Minnesota ABE Disability Specialists. Objectives. Identify your beliefs about student behavior

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Lori Leininger Certified Brain Injury Specialist (CBIS) PANDA Minnesota ABE Disability Specialists

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  1. The Hidden Disability:Brain InjuryBoosting Student Progress through Positive Behavioral Interventions Lori Leininger Certified Brain Injury Specialist (CBIS) PANDA Minnesota ABE Disability Specialists

  2. Objectives • Identify your beliefs about student behavior • Learn the common causes and behavioral changes after a brain injury • Explore the ABC’s of behavior • Analyze positive behavioral interventions • Experiment with ABC Data Collection Forms • Compare common causes of unsuccessful behavior management

  3. Button Pushing Who “pushes your buttons” ?

  4. Who has the brain injury?

  5. Types of Brain Injuries Brain spects from the Amen Clinics Brain Spect Image Gallery www.amenclinics.com Traumatic A BLOW OR JOLT TO THE HEAD OR PENETRATING HEAD INJURY THAT disrupts the normal FUNCTION OF THE BRAIN Non-Traumatic It is not caused by trauma, but by internal complications. It occurs after birth, is not hereditary, congenital, or degenerative

  6. Executive functions are the abilities to use what we have. How we use what we have is much more important than what we have. Mark Ylvisaker Ph.D.

  7. Behavioral Changes After a Brain Injury • Lack of cooperation • Aggression, anger or hostility • Decreased frustration tolerance • Extreme or inappropriate fluctuations in mood • Immature self-focused behavior • Impulsivity and hyperactivity • Inappropriate comments • Lack of initiation and motivation • Decreased social skills • Perseveration

  8. What We Know About Behavior Problem Behaviors Serve a Function • To get something (power, attention, approval) • To avoid or escape something (teachers, class work, a situation) • To have control

  9. ABC’s ofBehavior

  10. A Antecedent: a cause, course, or event that influences the development of behaviors. What is occurring in the environment? • Size of environment • Number of people in it • Specific event: time of day, etc. • Where and when does this occur

  11. B Behavior:what one does in response to the event,cause or condition. • Behavior (positive or negative), fulfills a specific need for a student • What is the behavior you are looking at or wanting to change?

  12. C Consequences:event that follows the behavior. • What occurs in the environment immediately after the behavior?

  13. Why ABC? • It helps to determine why the behavior is happening • It helps to teach a new behavior • It provides information on events in the environment

  14. Why Positive Behavioral Interventions? • Builds positive relationships • Encourages new behaviors • Reinforces skills (maintenance) • Increases self-satisfaction and optimism • Gives control to the student • Boosts student achievement

  15. Intervention Strategies • Planned ignoring • Preventive cueing • Proximity control • Discipline privately • Humor • Positive phrasing • Behavioral shaping

  16. Intervention StrategiesGroup Activity • YOU • Get to know your students • Develop consistent behavior expectations • Directly teach expectations • Provide a safe and structured classroom • Provide alternative ways of learning

  17. ABC Data Collection Forms

  18. Common Causes of Unsuccessful Behavior Management • Bombarding a student with too much verbal input, sensory input or emotion • Failure to determine the true cause of the problem • Trying to deal with too many behaviors at once • Presuming students understand • Focusing on extinguishing behaviors rather than teaching skills

  19. Minnesota ABE Disabilities Websitemn.abedisabilities.org

  20. Action Plan • About yourself: • About a student: • About disability website:

  21. Contact Information Lori Leininger PANDA Grant Coordinator CBIS (Certified Brain Injury Specialist) 763-504-4093 lori_leininger@rdale.org PANDA – Minnesota ABE Disability Specialists

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