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PBS Strategy
The author of this report has been asked to address two general question as they pertain to a child named Leonard. The scenario and proposed intervention involves the plight of a child named Leonard. The child is exhibiting some of the telltale characteristics of having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. However, the parents are resisting him being diagnosed or shifted to a special education environment. Even so, some sort of intervention is required as Leonard is not doing well in school and his behaviors are also disruptive to other children. While Leonard is not going to get the help he needs until his parents are cooperative and participatory, there are indeed assessments and measurements that can be done in the meantime.
Analysis
Many of the behaviors of ADHD involve one of two (if not both) of two interventions that would require the active participation of Leonard's parents. Indeed, those would be drug interventions and therapy interventions. Indeed, behavior problems are helped quite well by productive and consistent therapy batteries. However, that is not an option here, at least not yet. One intervention that is entirely useable and that can be put in...
Another method when it comes to ADHD kids (or those being suspected as such) is to teach in a slightly different way. However, these adjustments are not complex or hard to do. Just a few are to decrease the length of lessons and assignments, alternate between physical and mental activities and give simple yet concrete directions, but only one time (CDI, 2016). The Department of Education advocates a few tools and methods including giving praise immediately, use of varying statements to give praise and defining the desired and appropriate behavior when giving praise (DOE, 2016).
As far as an assessment tool that could or should be used when it comes to Leonord or any situation that is similar to his, it is not all that hard to do. Using the above and other methods, there should be a mapping of what the current pattern of behavior is and how often the bad behaviors happen, the interventions that will be used to address these behaviors and what changes in terms…
References
CDI. (2016). ADHD Students Learn Differently. Try These ADD Classroom Strategies. Child Development Institute. Retrieved 29 June 2016, from https://childdevelopmentinfo.com/learning/learning_disabilities/teacher/
DOE. (2016). Teaching Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Instructional Strategies and Practices-- Pg 4. Www2.ed.gov. Retrieved 29 June 2016, from http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/adhd/adhd-teaching_pg4.html
Miller, C. (2016). Behavioral Treatments for Kids with ADHD -- Child Mind Institute. Child Mind Institute. Retrieved 29 June 2016, from http://childmind.org/article/behavioral-treatments-kids-adhd/
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