Behavior Support for Students with ASD

Practical Help for 10 Common Challenges
Author: Debra Leach, Ed.D., BCBA

A must for all teachers of students in Grades K—12, this reader-friendly guide will help you support students with ASD, resolve or reduce behavior challenges, and strengthen academic and social-emotional outcomes for every learner.

Contains Companion Materials

When students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) engage in challenging behavior, how can teachers best respond?

This practical guidebook shows you how to address ten of the most common classroom behavior challenges—from following directions to handling transitions—with skill, insight, and compassion.

You'll start with an in-depth overview of the characteristics your students with ASD may have, plus foundational guidance on using functional behavior assessment (FBA) and multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) to address challenging behaviors. Then, for each of the ten behaviors, you'll get a dedicated chapter on how to

• Understand your students. Learn more about the academic, social, cognitive, and physical challenges that may contribute to each behavior.
• Assess their behavior. You'll get an easy-to-use FBA checklist for assessing the function of each specific challenging behavior, along with classroom examples and helpful tips for accurately assessing items on the checklists.
• Support positive behavior. You'll discover how to use research-based strategies to help students develop more adaptive behaviors. Vignettes and sample intervention plans show you how to translate assessment into effective supports tailored to each student's needs.

PRACTICAL MATERIALS: 10 FBA checklists, plus detailed guidelines, vignettes, and sample intervention plans.

HELP STUDENTS WHO STRUGGLE WITH:

1. Following directions
2. Engaging during group instruction
3. Working independently
4. Repetitive behaviors
5. Aggressive behaviors
6. Working with partners and groups
7. Attempting unfamiliar or difficult tasks
8. Engaging in nonpreferred tasks
9. Transitions
10. Shouting out

Reviews

The Midwest Book Review

“ Behavior Support for Students with ASD is an essential instructional guide and manual for all teachers of ASD students in Grades K–12, making it decidedly and unreservedly recommended for school district, college, and university library Teacher Education collections in general, and ASD Special Education supplemental studies reading lists in particular.”

Lynn Koegel, Stanford School of Medicine

“ Behavior Support for Students with ASD is a practical, user-friendly guide to understanding and developing comprehensive individualized interventions based on the unique challenges of each student. I highly recommend it for parents, professionals, pre-professionals, and others who work with individuals with ASD.”

Cindy Golden, University of West Florida

“ [This book] will be a wonderful resource for not only educators but for anyone who works with students on the spectrum.”

This product has additional material available on the Brookes Download Hub.

• 10 FBA checklists
• characteristics of ASD assessment
• characteristics of ASD FBA template and samples

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