Category: Behavior Intervention

  • Positive Solutions for Families
  • The Turtle Technique

    The Turtle Technique

    Turtle technique cards for teaching

  • Feeling Wheel (English-Spanish)

    Feeling Wheel (English-Spanish)

    The Feeling Faces assist children with understanding their feelings and the feelings of others. It is important to teach children words to use to express feelings in replace of the use of challenging behavior. The feeling faces that follow can be used in a variety of ways to help children learn social emotional skills around…

  • Positive Solutions for Families: Sessions 1-7 (Spanish)

    Positive Solutions for Families: Sessions 1-7 (Spanish)

    Positive Solutions for Families is an evidence-based, family-friendly workshop of seven sessions to help professionals working with families of children ages 2-5 years. Zip folder provides all materials needed by a facilitator to provide the workshop series to participants.

  • Positive Solutions for Families: Sessions 1-7

    Positive Solutions for Families: Sessions 1-7

    Positive Solutions for Families is an evidence-based, family-friendly workshop of seven sessions to help professionals working with families of children ages 2-5 years. Zip folder provides all materials needed by a facilitator to provide the workshop series to participants.

  • Communication is Key

    Communication is Key

    Providing directions in a positive way is a powerful practice for helping children meet behavior expectations. This resource provides ideas for how caregivers can state directions in positive terms.

  • Leading with Compassion: Building Trauma-Informed Pyramid Model Programs

    Leading with Compassion: Building Trauma-Informed Pyramid Model Programs

    Leadership practices for creating systems and relationships that support staff, families, and children.

  • Tucker Turtle Takes Time to Tuck and Think (Spanish)

    Tucker Turtle Takes Time to Tuck and Think (Spanish)

    (La tortuga Tucker toma tiempo para detenerse y pensar) Tucker the Turtle provides a scripted story to teach young children how to calm down when they have strong feelings by tucking into their shell and taking deep breaths. The story also includes visuals to help children learn how to use the strategy.

  • Tucker Turtle Takes Time to Tuck and Think

    Tucker Turtle Takes Time to Tuck and Think

    Tucker the Turtle provides a scripted story to teach young children how to calm down when they have strong feelings by tucking into their shell and taking deep breaths. The story also includes visuals to help children learn how to use the strategy.?

  • Preventing the Use of Restraint and Seclusion with Young Children: The Role of Effective, Positive Practices

    Preventing the Use of Restraint and Seclusion with Young Children: The Role of Effective, Positive Practices

    In recent years, there have been major concerns expressed regarding the use of restraint and seclusion to control the behavior of children with disabilities and/or challenging behavior. In May of 2009, for example, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released findings regarding a number of cases in which seclusion and restraint were abused to the…

  • Positive Solutions for Families: Family Routine Guide

    Positive Solutions for Families: Family Routine Guide

    The Positive Solutions Family Routine Guide is used by parents and caregivers of children ages 2-5 years in developing an intervention plan for children who are using challenging behavior. The Guide gives suggestions for prevent, teach, and response strategies, organized by the function of the challenging behavior, within common family activities and routines. The guide…