What is the primary voice output system used at Turning Pointe School
100
Organization
What is the O in COPES
100
Positive Behavior Supports is an empirically validated, function-based approach to eliminate and or significantly reduce challenging behaviors and replace them with prosocial skills.
What is the P in COPES
100
green
What is calm, organized and able to learn
100
Sensory integration refers to how people use the information provided by all the sensations coming from within the body and from the external environment
What is sensory integration
200
yes and no
What is the very first low tech access students get when beginning access to communication at TP
200
A daily schedule with the days events on it
What is the most vital part of the visual system at TP school and the first item we put in place
200
they are being reinforced
What is the reason disruptive behaviors remain and or increase
200
hurt, sad, tired, upset, anxious, too excited
What is yellow
200
difficulty processing information from the senses (touch, movement, smell, taste, vision, and hearing) and responding appropriately to that information.
What is sensory dysfunction
300
Access to communication
What is the first part of COPES the student must always have?
300
The Mini schedule
What is TP's way of breaking down each daily activity into smaller parts
300
The function is the why of the behavior, we are interested in figuring out how the behavior serves the child not as much what the behavior is
What is function when discussing behavior
300
frustrated, anger, mad,
What is red
300
"The daily total of sensorimotor experiences needed by a person to adaptively interact with the environment.”
What is a sensory diet
400
needs, wants, choices,
What are the top three hierarchical communication needs that TP ensures students have access to communicate at all times
400
How we ensure each student knows what is expected, now, next, later and how they know when something begins and finishes
What is Organization as it pertains to our students and the O in COPES
400
Attention
Access to preferred item
Escape
Avoidance
Automatic reinforcement
What is the five possible functions of behavior
400
teaching individuals to recognize their own escalation cycle so they can implement a del soothing/ calming strategy
What is self-management
400
is designed to alert us to threats, gives us body boundaries, and combined with
proprioception, gives us our basis for body image.
What is tactile system
500
student has a means to express themselves when verbal skills are limited or do not occur
What is access to communication
500
describes a situation, skill, or concept in terms of relevant social cues, perspectives, and common responses in a specifically defined style and format.
What is a social story
500
Behavior analysis focuses on the principles that explain how learning takes place. Positive reinforcement is one such principle. When a behavior is followed by some sort of reward, the behavior is more likely to be repeated. Through decades of research, the field of behavior analysis has developed many techniques for increasing useful behaviors and reducing those that may cause harm or interfere with learning.
What is ABA
500
giving themselves their own points towards their own breaks
What is self management of their own reinforcement system
500
system affects balance, muscle tone, equilibrium responses, the ability to use both sides of the body together, coordination of the head, neck and eye movements, auditory language, and plays a role in arousal.