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Dr. Susan Catlett and Cissy Carter, both Board Certified Behavior Analysts, discuss practical solutions to behavior challenges that they have experienced in the many years they have consulted to schools and families regarding individuals with disabilities.
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Laura picks up telling us about dyslexia. She talks about things we look at as children get into late kindergarten or into first grade. She says that looking at what they can write can tell us a lot. She gives us information about decoding and encoding and that those are different skills. Students can be able to do one and have difficulty with the other. Have a listen. We hope you gather new information. Thank you for listening. We will be takin...
Laura Dowdy Northcutt is back, but this time she is talking with Susan and Cissy about dyslexia. Laura is the director of Responsive Services for a Houston area school district and guides the dyslexia services. Things are ever changing with dyslexia and you are bound to learn some new things through this conversation. We appreciate you listening. stay for the question at the end and be sure to come back for part 2 next week.
Susan and Cissy continue their conversation with David Hays. In this episode, David gives tips about how to remain calm and safe when interacting with a child who is not emotionally regulated. He also talks about helping children (and adults) become more regulated. Have a listen about how visual supports can help students understand the natural consequences to their behavior! His experience with a broad range of ages and a broad range of challenging behaviors makes for a great talk. Be ...
David Hays has been a friend and colleague for decades. Although a bit of a winding road, his career started as a camp counselor before he found his way to special education. He then taught children with significant behavior support needs and retired as an assistant director to a large school district. In this conversation, David talks about the importance of remaining calm, gentle, kind, respectful, and receptive. What a difference that can make when a student is in crisis! Have a list...
Educators or therapists may be the expert on math, reading, strategies, etc., but parents are the experts on their child. Cissy shares a story about a really fun student with an expert parent. She learned as much from the parent as she did the student. She and Susan talk about another student and the idea of keeping your word when you tell a student that you are going to give them a reward for a specific behavior. Some of the things they talk about have complex explana...
Susan and Cissy continue their conversation with Mary Fitzgerald. She gives great advice like watching peers of the same age as the individuals you are working with to see what makes for fun social activities. Uno can be fun, but if no one in their school is doing that, we should do something else. They also talk about the impact inclusion has had such that individuals with special needs participate regularly in activities in their school and community. She also talks ...
Mary Fitzgerald is a master educator. She has worked with school districts, educational service centers, and with business partners for many years making education better for many, many students. In this conversation, she emphasizes the importance of presuming competence with students as we interact with them and around them. In this first half of the conversation, she talks about a student who had been hitting peers who were interacting with her. Presuming that she co...
The conversation continues with Dr. Gray Atherton as she moves into a discussion of video games. She talks about finding ways to incorporate similarities to video games in activities, but make the activities involve others and social interaction. It could be games that create a "battle" with figurines or something like paintball. She suggests trying to channel their interests into something that creates opportunities to interact with others. Many of these activities ar...
Dr. Gray Atherton received her Ph.D. at the University of Houston, but is working at Edge Hill University in England now. She is a professor and researcher interested in many areas related to autism. One especially interesting topic is anthropomorphism. A simple explanation of this is when someone implies human characteristics to nonhuman things such as cartoons or animals. She talks about how to use this idea to teach social skills like understanding what others...
Susan and Cissy talk all the time about how behavioral concepts are involved in everything we do. It is even involved when we make decisions about how to help ourselves with medical issues like hip pain. Susan shares about the journey to getting a hip replacement. From the way the doctor talks with her to the way she prepares herself for the surgery and even to the necessary things after the surgery, behavioral concepts can be seen. Have a listen. Let us know wha...
Dr. Amanda Gray continues her conversation with Susan and Cissy about executive functioning. You don't have to be on the spectrum to have executive functioning problems. We have almost all had moments of executive dysfunction when hurried or under stress. This could look like being late for an appointment because after an out of order kind of morning, you could not find your keys. They talk about how trauma can impact executive functioning too. She goes on to sa...
Amanda Gray is back! She has a practice in the Dallas area called "Gray Area". She helps individuals with ADHD and related challenges work on homework, study skills, and strategies that will help them at school and in life. She talks with Susan and Cissy about Executive Functioning and working to find what works. This can be very individualized. The skills needed may be the same such as organization, being on time, and finishing homework and other assignmen...
Susan shares about her day that started a little crazy and got crazier. Having one of those days made her think about how important self-regulation is. She related the importance of explicitly teaching self-regulation skills to students. She talked about a student who yells, name calls, and hits furniture or the wall when upset. The staff working with her have been doing a great job counting the behaviors. She talked about how they worked through coming up with a...
Susan and Cissy continue their conversation with Dr. Todd Savage, former president of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) and international speaker. He shares important information about warning signs for suicide. He helps our listeners see the connection between school violence and suicidal ideation and attempts. Being mindful of these behaviors can help school staff engage people trained in threat assessment. He also makes a case for working on so...
Susan and Cissy had the wonderful opportunity to talk with Dr. Todd Savage about school safety and crisis prevention as well as gender diversity. Dr. Savage is a psychologist and professor who speaks nationally on these topics as well as culturally responsive practice and LGBTQ+ matters in education. The statistics he shares about suicide should serve as a wake up call to us all. He advocates for training for all adults in schools to help with this issue. He also talks...
Cissy's husband, Joe, joins her on this episode to talk about the legend Toby Keith. Joe has worked in the music business for a very long time and has had the opportunity to meet and speak with some of the greats. He shares about a few of those people, but seeks to highlight the kind of person Toby Keith was. They end with more of a comment than a question talking about the behavioral aspects of something Toby did. Come back next week. Thanks for listening.
Susan and Cissy continue their conversation with Michael Soria. He uses his experience as a parent and educator to help families and schools create plans and find tools that will help students make progress. He has a positive approach to help families have their concerns heard as well as positive ways to help educators reach students. Have a listen and gather ideas about being heard in any kind of meeting. Be sure to check out Matthew's Corner on Michael's LinkedIn sit...
Michael Soria is an educator who went from the classroom to other companies like Pearson, Touch Math, and PCI. He has a passion for helping individuals with special needs achieve and be included. He has been the father of two sons one of whom had autism. He honors the memory of that son in Matthew's Corner. He has started a company, IEP Curriculum and Consulting. Through this company, he helps families and schools find tools to help students with special needs. &...
A year ago, Cissy talked about the fact that she did not finish the marathon at Disney World and how she wanted to have a redemption run. In this episode, Susan and Cissy talk about the ABA concepts behind trying for a comeback. It is food for thought as we work with individuals with disabilities and setting goals for them that they may achieve or not. It is important to consider why they were not able to achieve a goal. What can we change to help them master the skill? &nbs...
Bryce Kaiser is back with Susan and Cissy to finish the rest of their conversation. In this second half, he talks about some of the challenges supervisors face and how Hoom House has helped with those challenges. He also talks about how he has helped people in fields that others may not think about ABA as being applied. He has worked with a certified mermaid who is using ABA in her practice. Certification changed so that BACB certificants are only in the US now. ...
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