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Webinar “Challenging Behavior in the Autism Classroom: What Can We Do?”

Published: November 7, 2022; Author: Julia Sonrisa

 November 16, 2022    04:00 PM-05:00 PM EDT
Webinar “Challenging Behavior in the Autism Classroom: What Can We Do?”

Even with established foundational classroom management practices in place, challenging behavior can and will still happen in classrooms supporting students with autism. When these challenges begin, teachers can curb the behaviors by analyzing their data to determine the function or cause. Once teachers have determined the “why” a behavior is occurring, then they can develop a plan to prevent it from occurring in the first place and tailor explicit instruction to reshape behaviors or reinforce replacement behaviors better suited to meeting the students’ needs. This session will provide examples of proactive strategies, explicit teaching techniques and tools, and reinforcement strategies to ensure that more adaptive, appropriate behaviors begin to take place.

This edWebinar will interest PreK-12 teachers, especially those teaching special education, and school and district leaders. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

About the Presenters

Rachel Emmer is a speech-language pathologist and worked in public schools for 15 years supporting children in a variety of settings and specialized classrooms at the elementary level, at an early childhood school, and as part of a district team supporting behavior for students with special needs across the district. Rachel has a passion for working with students and staff to support communication and behavior in the classroom. Currently, she works for STAGES® Learning and provides professional development and customer care. Rachel has a bachelor’s degree from Baylor University, a Master of Science in communication disorders from The University of Texas at Dallas and her Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Frankie Kietzman is a manager of educational relationships for STAGES® Learning with experience teaching as an elementary teacher, a self-contained autism teacher for elementary and secondary students, and an autism specialist and coach for teachers dealing with challenging behaviors. Frankie’s passion for supporting children and adults with autism originates from growing up with her brother who is deaf and has autism. As one of her brother’s legal guardians, she continues to learn about post-graduate opportunities and outcomes for people with autism. She has a passion for peer-mediated interventions, social-emotional learning, visual supports, and community-based instruction. Frankie has a bachelor’s degree from Kansas State University in elementary education, a master’s degree in high and low incidence disabilities from Pittsburg State University, and in 2021, completed another master’s degree in advanced leadership in special education from Pittsburg State University.

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Time: 4:00 pm — 5:00 pm EST

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