When you are teaching initiation

Tell the individual "I don't know how to start" see if they can guide you.

Behavior

All behavior is an attempt to communicate or regulate

Inappropriate behaviors are coping strategies

Author Andrew Shahan, Easter Seals.

Examples of literal thinking

When Jarhari once said to Lauren "I love Old Navy; I think I am going to move in here!" Lauren reacted with shock and dismay!

Money Grows on Trees.

How to Support Learning

The understanding of how to support learning has come so far for young children. Parents of youth and adults have yet to learn these comcepts and seem stuck on archaic models of interventions v. finding the supports that produce successes.

Author, me... or someone I can't remember.

"If you don't honor his responses, then he won't know the difference". Honoring when someone says no is an important step in teaching the difference between yes and no.

My Vision for My Team

It is that every day we are filled with the satisfaction of a job well done. That even when our clients are too overwhelmed with their lives to express their appreciation and grateful spirit, that we know we did the best we could do for them that day.