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Home-Based Interventions to Build Social-Emotional Skills and Manage Challenging Behavior in Young Children

Young children with developmental delays or disabilities often struggle with social-emotional skills and managing challenging behaviors, such as aggression, tantrums, and self-injury. Research shows these difficulties, if untreated, can lead to poor long-term outcomes, including lower academic performance, social exclusion, and increased caregiver stress. However, home-based interventions to build social-emotional skills, which involve training caregivers […]

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Behavior Intervention Tools – Free Printable

Behavior intervention tools are essential for teachers, parents, and caregivers to help students develop positive behaviors and coping mechanisms. One effective tool is a free printable behavior intervention tool that allows students to identify and regulate their emotions before they become overwhelming. By using this tool, students can take control of their behavior and develop […]

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Evidence-Based Behavior Interventions to Help Students Succeed

Here are several low intensity, evidence-based behavior interventions to help students participate in positive, productive, and fun learning environments.

Teachers, therapists, and parents oftentimes work very hard to create positive, productive, and fun learning environments for our children. Let’s face it – students are not always compliant.  And on occasion, there are students who have behavioral difficulties.  Here are several low intensity, evidence-based behavior interventions that teachers and parents can do to help students […]

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Sensory Based Problem Behaviors and Suggested Interventions

School based occupational and physical therapists play a key role in suggesting therapeutic interventions for students with sensory based behaviors.  It is our job to educate teachers, parents and students as to why a child’s behaviors may be sensory based and what sensory strategies can be used to help that child better navigate the educational […]

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Better Motor Skills = Better Adaptive Behavior Skills in Children with Autism

Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders published research on 233 children ages 14 to 49 months diagnosed with autism. The researchers examined the relationship of motor skills on the adaptive behavior composite, daily living, adaptive social and adaptive communicative skills while holding constant the age, non-verbal problem solving, and the severity of autism. The following results […]

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