May 6-10, 2024 - Virtual via Zoom
May 6-10, 2024 - Virtual via Zoom
The goal of my presentation is to guide participants towards concrete information about why young children use behavior, the importance of high-quality play, and how a young child’s daily experiences and interactions can influence their overall behavior throughout their day. Additionally, we will review the fundamentals of managing a specific challenging behavior that a child is using to meet their needs. You will learn how to guide parents, childcare staff, or yourself towards understanding a challenging behavior by discovering its function and trigger(s), ideas to help avoid triggering the behavior, and learn how to replace the challenging behavior by teaching an equally effective but more appropriate new skill. My presentation’s framework will be supported by information from several social-emotional resources including the Promoting First Relationships (PFR) curriculum and the Project ImPACT (PI) curriculum. My intention is for this presentation to be inclusive to early intervention home visitors, educators in a classroom or childcare setting, parents, and caregivers in general. You may find this presentation helpful if you would like an introduction to or review the social and emotional needs of young children, and if you would like to learn about managing and preventing specific challenging behaviors from young children such as dramatic protests and tantrums or the use of self-injurious behavior.
Hello! I am an early intervention specialist within ESD 112’s Specialized Student Services department. I have been in this role for nearly 10 years with a relatively recent transition to being my department’s Project ImPACT coach. In this role I work to bring the Project ImPACT curriculum to families whose child has a diagnosis of Autism or are showing social communication delays for their age. My experience ranges from support staff at childcare centers, to full time staff, to one-on-one support staff, to special education preschool teacher, to director of a before and after school childcare program.
