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This Web page is a source of information for teachers and home visitors working with young children who are experiencing mental health challenges, challenging behavior, or other delays in their social and emotional development. It contains training modules and manuals designed for staff development and in-service events. Additional information on challenging behavior related to autism and autism spectrum disorders is also available on our Web site.

  • Teaching Tools for Young Children with Challenging Behavior
    The "Teaching Tools" were developed by the Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior. They are meant to assist teachers in developing a plan to support young children who are having challenging behavior. The User's Manual explains how to use the tools and provides the technical information needed to access hyperlinked visual supports and materials. Also included is the Routine Based Support Guide, which accompanies all of the tools and is organized into routines and activities that typically occur in early childhood programs.
  • Promoting Social and Emotional Competence
    The Center on Social and Emotional Foundations for Early learning developed four training modules for use by TA providers to train staff in early care and education programs. The content of the modules is consistent with evidence-based practices identified through a thorough review of the literature. They include
    1. Promoting Children's Success: Building Relationships and Creating Supportive Environments
    2. Social and Emotional Teaching Strategies
    3. Individualized Intensive Intervention: Determining the Meaning of Challenging Behavior, and Developing a Behavior Support Plan
    4. Leadership Strategies for Supporting Children's Social and Emotional Development and Addressing Challenging Behavior
  • Positive Beginnings-Supporting Young Children with Challenging Behavior
    This series of on-line training modules was developed at Florida State University. It can also be ordered on CD.
    1. Social and Communication Development
    2. Determining the meaning of Challenging Behavior
    3. Positive Behavior Interventions and Support
    4. Teaming to Build a Behavior Support Plan
    5. Intervention in Everyday Settings, Supporting Families
  • Preventing Challenging Behavior in Young Children: Effective Practices
    While there is no one solution for preventing challenging behavior, this brief from the Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior describes several early intervention strategies, including: (a) arranging of the classroom environment, (b) scheduling, and (c) implementing rules, rituals, and routines.
  • DEC Position Statement and DEC Concept Paper on Identification of and Intervention with Challenging Behavior
    These two documents from the Division for Early Childhood (DEC) provide guidance on recommended practices for identifying and working with young children with challenging behavior. Also available to order from DEC is Monograph No.1 of the "Young Exceptional Children Series" - Practical Ideas for Addressing Challenging Behavior
  • Positive Behavior Support
    There is a growing body of evidence on the effectiveness of Positive Behavior Support (PBS) for young children. This Web site from the Center for Evidence-based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior provides information on the steps that are essential to the process of PBS, a synthesis of the research and several case studies that illustrate the success of PBS with young children and their families.
  • School wide Positive Behavior Supports: Implementers' Blueprint and Self Assessment
    This blueprint was developed by OSEP's Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. It presents a rationale for adopting school-wide positive behavior support (SW-PBS), describes key features of SW-PBS, and illustrates processes, structures, and supports of SW-PBS.
  • Positive Behavior Supports Guideline
    This is an introductory article for parents and teachers from ARC about the meaning of positive behavior support.
  • Effects of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy on Young Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorders
    This article discusses the results of a study conducted by the Research and Training Center on Early Childhood Development on the use of the Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) with preschool-age children identified as showing disruptive behavior. It describes the characteristics of PCIT and strategies for using PCIT with young children.
  • Research Syntheses on Strengthening Parent-Child Relationships
    This Web page links to a number of practice-based research synthesis from the Research and Training Center on Early Childhood Development that focus on strategies for strengthening parent-child relationships.
  • Head Start Bulletin - Challenging Behaviors in the Class
  • Head Start Bulletin - Strategies Of Behavior Management for Special Needs Children

Links on this site are verified monthly. This page content was last updated on 11/30/2006.
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