The career field I’m planning to go into is human services, with the focus of being an ombudsman for profoundly medical fragile children. In this field I will assist families in locating medical equipment and supplies that are not normally covered by their insurance or DSHS. I will also be applying the techniques that I learned in this class to my own child who has autism. The techniques I am most interested in are using a token economy system for children with special needs, decision balancing, worry scheduling, and coping skill as these skills can be applied to the parents with whom we work. This is because most parents experience either high stress situations dealing with their children or they have children with profound behavioral issues.
Token economies work well for children who have behavioral issues from profound to mild which might include ADHD to autism to oppositional defiant disorder. How this can be applied to the child is by increasing the positive behavior and decreasing negative behavior through either a reward system or through “a token-based economy.” By doing this we find out with the child most dearly wants whether it is extra videogame time or a date with mom and/or dad and so. We then take these ideas and build a reward system for this.
Another great skill we could teach parents is decision balancing skills. Families who are under extreme stresses for long periods of times may need to make a critical family decision that affects everyone in the family. This can be done by simply writing the pros and cons of something as simple as changing the child’s formula out to a different one or as complex as end-of-life planning for their child or loved one. An example could be whether or not a family should let t...
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...lt, but with coping skills parents are easily able to overcome the challenges. By helping their children self soothe and control their behavior with a token economy system, that will provide positive reinforcement through a reward system for the child(ren) and the parents are able to take control of any situation. There are times though when parents feel defeated this is when they can use decision balancing to determine the pros and cons of any situation. They can also use worry scheduling to help them in the long term stop worrying about things may or may not be able to change. People are able to change if that is what they want, until then they will have wants and needs that may go unfulfilled, but that is ok because life is a learning process.
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Chapter 9 encompasses three major topics token economy, contingency contract, and behavioral parent training. A token economy is a system for motivating clients to perform adaptive behaviors. Client are rewarded with tokens for completing an adaptive behavior and lose tokens for maladaptive behaviors. This is normally used in a group setting rather than for an individual. Joseph Lancaster set up a token economy system in a school and used the token method to motivate students to perform better academically. The Token economy started in the 19 century here in the United States. The economy today began with a program for hospitalized patients created by Teodoro Ayllon and Nathan Azrin in 1961.
...eading to behavior modification and the idea of token economy. Behavior modification is a fairly simple concept in which the negative reinforcement is removed and is replaced by a desirable reinforcement in order to achieve the wanted behavior. This type of modification has been used in treating many conditions such as addictions, autism, and many other psychological issues.
amounts of time dedicacted to worry, either about the past or the future. And with the Adverse
The first resource that I would like to discuss would be the Aspergers Society of Ontario. The ASO is a non-profit organization that was created by parents of children with Aspergers Spectrum Disorder and concerned professionals in 2000. The ASO is the only agency in Ontario that is devoted to serving those with Aspergers Syndrome, their families and other interested individuals.
teach new skills and decrease challenging behaviors” (pg. 24). Based on my own observation, I’ve seen teachers implement a token economy (e.g., happy faces, stars, and stickers of different forms) to shape and reinforce positive behavior in the classroom. To maintain instructional control, tokens would be delivered immediately to a student when following simple instructions (e.g., following circle time, cleaning
A parent’s parenting styles are as diverse as the world we live in today. Nowadays, parents only want what is best for their children and their parenting styles plays a crucial role in the development of children which will in the long run, not only effect the child’s childhood years, but later prolong into their adult life as well.
...en it comes to their own parenting skills. However, parents want their children to be successful in their adult life and in the future workforce.
I was given the opportunity to experience how an autistic support class operates. Most importantly, I was able to view some of the techniques are that used on a daily basis. During the 2009–2010 school year, I worked as a therapeutic staff support (TSS) in Mrs. F’s kindergarten autistic support classroom. During the current school year (2010), I became a Blended Case Manager (BCM) where I was also given the opportunity to visit Mrs. F’s classroom on a bi-weekly basis. Over the past year and a ...
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Mainstreaming children with special needs has been a huge controversy in education. Many students with a disability require special attention and need to be in an environment where teachers can meet these needs. According to opposition, placing disabled and non-disabled kids in the same classroom will increase academic engagement and reduce problem behaviors. However, educators prove that special needs children are being bullied, still lag behind their non-disabled peers in educational achievements and are more likely to drop out of school. (Need to cite) Mainstreaming children will promote child bullying and ongoing stereotypes that undermine their ability to compete in the classroom.
This Paper is going to examine Autism. What is Autism? Autism is a disorder that affects an individual brain, impacting their development, causing delays such as cognitive, Language, and behavioral (Karst & Vaughn, Van Heck, 2012). Autism is classified as DSM-IV-TR disorder (Blewitt& Broderick, 2015). Autism does not discriminate it can affect anyone regardless of their race or social background. The probability that a child may be impacted from autism is 1 out of 110 (Blewitt& Broderick ,2015). Child development is important to the field of human service. Autism is a disorder that signifies a child development is not progressing. Dating back to the 1960’s many social scientists such as Sigmund Freud and Piaget began to study the development