Resources

Take your learning further with the following resources.

• My Essentials Plan for Understanding Behavior: A Framework for Intervention

  Use this My Essentials Plan to create your own path to developing knowledge about how behaviors develop and how to select supports to assist youth during the Rage Cycle.

• Supporting Youth with Intensive and Complex Needs Training

  OCALI and the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities designed this online course to provide a roadmap for frontline staff who work directly with youth with complex needs.

• Autism Center Grab and Go Resource Gallery of Interventions

  The gallery provides interventions to support positive behaviors in youth with complex needs. Included are completed and blank templates and how-to explanations. Resources include: Behavior/Contingency Maps, Behavior Cue Cards, and Social Autopsy.

• Many Faces of Autism

  This video module presents information about autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and provides insight into factors that may contribute to the development of behaviors. Five simple strategies are introduced that can be included in support plans to avoid behavioral escalations.

• Functional Behavior Assessment for Youth With Complex Needs: Beyond A-B-C

  A Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) is helpful to determine the root cause of behaviors but must consider multiple factors. This webinar presents an FBA that looks at many factors and includes the downloadable resource, Why Behaviors Occur: A Quick Reference to Assist in Planning to help teams in planning.