Managing the Cycle of Meltdowns for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder - Softcover

Colvin, Geoff; Sheehan, Martin R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412994039 ISBN 13: 9781412994033

Publisher: Corwin, 2012

Synopsis

How to keep meltdowns from overheating your classroom

This book outlines practical steps for preventing and responding to the various phases of meltdown behavior in students with ASD. Based on Geoff Colvin’s best-selling book, Managing the Cycle of Acting Out Behavior in the Classroom, this practitioner-friendly guide provides special and general education teachers with his seven-phase positive behavior support model that includes interventions for each phase. Readers will also find:

• An overview of the nature of autism and meltdown phases
• Case studies with examples of behaviors and plans
• A chapter on parent communication
• Prevention techniques for the early stages of the cycle

About this title

Review

"This book provides educators and parents with current research-based strategies for helping to recognize the stages of meltdown in children with ASD and a model for systematic analysis and action. The strategies suggested are comprehensive and sensitive to the diversity of student needs." (Shannan McNair, Associate Professor 2011-12-22)

"This how-to book provides a good introduction to the meltdown cycle and strategies anyone can implement. I recommend it as a particularly good resource for administrators and others who have had limited experience with autism." (Wendy Dallman, Facilitator of New Teacher Mentoring Program 2011-12-22)

"This text meets a need for special educators who work with ASD students. The material is useful and easy to navigate. The appendices offered some very concrete examples that are helpful for implementation." (Mandy Ellis, Special Education Teacher and Learning Intervention Specialist 2011-12-22)

"The author clearly explains the process of meltdown prevention and includes tables, lists and charts that summarize important points in the text. These features help teachers encapsulate the information into manageable, memorable bites, and are helpful for analyzing real-life situations." (Carole S. Campbell, Early Childhood Consultant 2011-12-22)

“An indispensable resource for teachers working with students with ASD, this book is informative, useful, easy to follow, and loaded with wisdom on analyzing challenging meltdown behaviors, identifying triggers, and implementing effective interventions.” (Catalina Palfreman, Special Education Teacher 2012-01-25)

“As parents of a teenage boy with Autism, we highly recommend this book. Although our son has not had a true meltdown in many years, he still periodically displays the rest of the cycle. We learned from Geoff and Martin’s book that what we once regarded as problem behaviors are really very purposeful strategies for achieving his various goals. We wish we'd had this resource 15 years ago! However, we are now better equipped to manage his current needs.” (Greg and Shelley Backstrom, Parents of child with ASD 2012-01-25)

"This book is a key to keeping autistic meltdowns from taking over a classroom. Practical steps to recognizing, preventing and responding to common phases of meltdown behaviors with autism spectrum disorder students provides a guide that advocates positive behavior support and gives basic keys to achieving these goals." (Midwest Book Review, October 2012)

About the Author

Geoff Colvin draws on his experience as a classroom teacher, administrator, researcher and instructor at the University of Oregon, and national public school consultant. Widely recognized as an expert on the subjects of school safety and violence prevention, Colvin has provided inservice training for teachers and administrators in more than 100 school districts and agencies nationally and internationally. He recently served as research associate at the University of Oregon and independent consultant in the areas of schoolwide discipline, school climate, school safety, and violence prevention, classroom management, and individual cases involving students with severe behavior disorders. Geoff also directed a juvenile detention school and a school program for youth with serious emotionally disturbances. Colvin has authored more than sixty publications, books, book chapters, journal articles, and video programs on the subject of teaching and managing students who exhibit the full range of problem behavior.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1412994039
• ISBN 13: 9781412994033
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240