Person-Centered Planning with the SIS-A: A Guide for Planning Teams is designed for use following the administration of the Support Intensity Scale-Adult Version® (SIS-A®) to assist planning team members in using the results to develop person-centered  support plans.

The guide does not require the participation of those involved in administering the SIS-A. The intent is to assist teams in pursuing the type of personalized supports planning that meaningfully enhances a person’s quality of life.

A structured 18-step process that results in a “24-7” support plan for a typical week is outlined. Four of the 18 steps require information from each individual planning team member, and multiple copies of forms for each of those steps are included with the guide. 

The Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum (PBSTC) teaches direct support staff and supervisors the principles of positive behavior support to address challenging behavior and enhance quality of life. This curriculum, now in its 3rd edition, has been successfully implemented across the country and abroad.  

The PBSTC contains strategies that create a respectful client-staff environment. The curriculum consists of 25 training modules, 9 of which are designed for supervisors only. Each module addresses a key set of skills in positive behavior support, and includes a  Summary Sheet, Presentation Outline, Activity Sheets, and Skill Checks. The curriculum is competency-based:

• trainees will demonstrate their mastery of positive behavioral support skills at the completion of each module through quizzes, role plays, and other activities
• trainees will be observed to demonstrate their mastery of applying new skills in their routine work setting
• the supervisors' modules train supervisors to be more effective managers.

Related Product: Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum Trainee Resource Guide (3rd Ed.)

Customized train-the-trainer and direct support staff training workshops are available from author Dennis H. Reid. 

The Positive Behavior Support Curriculum Trainee Resource Guide, 3rd Ed. summarizes 25 modules taught in the Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum.

Meant for trainee note-taking and reference, it is available separately so that a copy for each trainee can be purchased.

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The Supervisor Training Curriculum teaches supervisors how to direct and motivate staff working with people with IDD. Based on three decades of applied research, each management strategy presented has been tested and proven to work in human services. This Curriculum organizes the role of supervision in human service settings into clear and convenient objectives and responsibilities for new managers.

The curriculum is designed for trainers and upper-level managers in agencies that provide supports to people with IDD. The curriculum consists of a training manual with activity sheets and competency checks for each module and one Trainee Guide for reference and note taking. A file of PowerPoint slides available upon request by contacting books@aaidd.org. 

Related Product: The Supervisor Training Curriculum Trainee Guide

 

The Trainee Guide for the Supervisor Training Curriculum summarizes key points in the Curriculum and is meant as a note taking and reference tool. Each trainee will need their own copy of the Guide.

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Teaching Authentic Cooking Skills to Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Active Engagement is a unique instructional tool used to address two critical issues in working with adults with IDD: promoting healthy eating habits and teaching real-life skills that will enhance independence and self-determination.

The book features good nutritional principles and evidence-based instructional practices, incorporating direct instruction, individualized choice-making, and experiential learning. This is not a cookbook, although there are a number of adaptive recipes embedded as examples throughout.

This book provides detailed information on the Active Engagement program and how to implement it in teaching real cooking skills. Topics include:

    • Cooking as nutritional intervention
    • Teaching framework for cooking skills
    • Implementing cooking instruction around American consumption patterns
    • Teaching basic skills with adaptive tools
    • New approaches to recipes
    • Universal and specialized appliances
    • Supporting cooking skills with food skills

Janice Goldschmidt was awarded the 2018 Excellence in Written Communication Award from the Behavioral Health Nutrition Dietetics Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics for this book.

Trauma-Informed Behavioral Interventions: What Works and What Doesn't outlines the ways in which some individuals with IDD may have been harmed by a failure to consider problem behaviors as trauma responses that cannot be modified through the application of consequences.

With numerous case studies, the author describes exploring past traumas and successful strategies for stabilization, prevention, and intervention. This book provides insights on  how to support people who have experienced large and small-scale traumas. She provides examples of "mental health plans" and illustrates how the plans should be written to ensure optimal implementation.

This book gives the professionals and paraprofessionals a trauma-informed paradigm within which to support people with IDD and to establish the critical elements needed for their recovery from trauma.

Designing Positive Behavior Support Plans, 2nd Ed. is a concise and easy-to-read book for school teams, providers, students, and parents to understand, design, and evaluate positive behavior support (PBS) plans for students with developmental disabilities.

The book uses a user-friendly format with examples, tips, forms, and checklists to help

• Proactively approach problem behavior.
• Use functional behavioral assessments to design individualized PBS plans for children.
• Illustrate a) prevention through antecedent and setting event modifications; b) teaching alternate skills; c) designing consequence interventions; and d) creating long-term supports.

The book also includes a comprehensive case study, two sample support plans, a progress evaluation summary, and frequently asked questions.

By implementing these empirical strategies, professionals and parents can reduce the occurrence of problem behaviors and enhance the quality of life of a child with a developmental disability.

The Supports Intensity Scale® (SIS®) is a progressive, state-of-the-art assessment tool that helps professionals evaluate practical support requirements of a person with an intellectual disability, and plan services accordingly.

The SIS was developed by 10 disability experts over five years and consists of an 8-page Interview and profile form that tests support needs in 57 life activities and 28 behavioral and medical areas.

*Purchase of SIS materials is limited to qualified users of the tool. If you have questions about SIS assement qualifications, contact us.

The Supports Intensity Scale® (SIS®) is a progressive, state-of-the-art assessment tool that helps professionals evaluate practical support requirements of a person with an intellectual disability, and plan services accordingly. Currently adopted by the numerous states and countries, SIS is the only tool to provide a clear and comprehensive picture of what the client wants and what supports it takes to fulfill goals and aspirations. 

The SIS was developed by 10 disability experts over five years and consists of an 8-page Interview and profile form that tests support needs in 57 life activities and 28 behavioral and medical areas. A 128-page User’s Manual explains how to administer the scale. 

The SIS measures life activities in home living, community living, lifelong learning, employment, health and safety, social activities, and protection and advocacy.  The scale ranks each activity measured according to frequency (none, at least once a month), amount (none, less than 30 minutes), and type of support (monitoring, verbal gesturing).

Key features and benefits

• Gives you direct, reliable, and valid measurement of supports requirements in 57 life activities based on 7 areas of competence including the areas of home living, community living; life-long learning; employment; health and safety; social interaction; and protection and advocacy. 
• Provides a clear ranking of support needs in 15 medical and 13 behavioral conditions.
• Has excellent psychometric properties, is empirically based, and extensively field tested.
• Supplements adaptive behavior measures by telling you what practical supports are required to perform a task (Adaptive measures identify the skills an individual has to do a task).
• Presents an overall supports needs score and a percentile ranking of persons needs based on national field test data.
• Gives you a graphic plot of information recorded so that you have a visual display of areas of high intensity vs. low intensity of supports needs.
• Allows feedback from respondent and those most close to him/her so that you have a clear picture of person’s needs, preferences, and goals for life.
• Provides a solid knowledge base on respondent to develop individualized, person-centered plans.
• Assists with resource allocation and financial planning.
  Only scale to align conceptually with the current, supports-based system of defining and diagnosing mental retardation.
• Leads to long-term independence and enhanced quality of life of persons with intellectual disabilities.

Comes with free copy of Guidelines for Interviewing People with Disabilities. 

*Purchase of SIS materials is limited to qualified users of the tool. If you have questions about SIS assement qualifications, contact us.

The Supports Intensity Scale® (SIS®) is a progressive, state-of-the-art assessment tool that helps professionals evaluate practical support requirements of a person with an intellectual disability, and plan services accordingly. Currently adopted in numerous states and countries, SIS is the only tool to provide a clear and comprehensive picture of what the client wants and what supports it takes to fulfill goals and aspirations.

The SIS measures life activities in home living, community living, lifelong learning, employment, health and safety, social activities, and protection and advocacy. The scale ranks each activity measured according to frequency (none, at least once a month), amount (none, less than 30 minutes), and type of support (monitoring, verbal gesturing).

The User’s Manual explains how to administer the Supports Intensity Scale, interpret raw scores, and use SIS in creating person-centered plans.

*Purchase of SIS materials is limited to qualified users of the tool. If you have questions about SIS assement qualifications, contact us.

The take-away Trainee Resource Guide summarizes 25 modules taught in the Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum. Meant for trainee note-taking and reference. Each PBSTC set comes with one Trainee Resource Guide. Purchase a Trainee Resource Guide for each trainee attending the session.

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Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum (2nd Edition)
The Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum (PBSTC) teaches direct support staff and supervisors the principles of positive behavior support while interacting with people with intellectual disabilities in service settings. This Curriculum, originally published in 2004, has been successfully implemented by service providers and agencies across the country and abroad.

Customized Train-the-Trainer and direct support staff traning by author Dennis H. Reid now available. Click here to send an email for a training quote.

The Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum (PBSTC) teaches direct support staff and supervisors the principles of positive behavior support while interacting with people with intellectual disabilities in service settings. This Curriculum, originally published in 2004, has been successfully implemented by service providers and agencies across the country and abroad.  

Positive behavior support strategies are known to work in dealing with challenging behavior and the PBSTC contains strategies that create a respectful client-staff environment in service settings.

The PBSTC contains 25 training modules in total, 9 of which are designed for supervisors only.  Each module addresses a key set of skills in positive behavior support, and in addtion the supervisors' modules trains supervisors to be effective managers. Each module consists of a Module Summary Sheet, Presentation Outline, Activity Sheets for trainee use during training, and Skills Checks to use to ensure trainees demonstrate skill mastery of the training content.

Since the Curriculum is competency based, trainees are required to demonstrate mastery of skills acquired after the completion of each module with the help of quizzes, role plays, and other activities. Following the classroom training, approximately 45 minutes is required with each trainee in the trainee’s routine work setting in order for the trainer to assess on-the-job mastery of the skills.

New to the Second Edition of PBSTC

• Simpler, shorter, and more inclusive and effective! 
• Combines supervisor and direct support editions into one efficient Curriculum.
• Contains wider selection of activities to work with people with varying degrees of intellectual disability.
• Completely redesigned, ready-to-use PowerPoint slides now on CD-ROM.
• Simplified trainee activities make learning easier for staff.
• Total training time for the Curriculum reduced to two-and-a-half days of classroom. training for direct support staff and three-and-a-half days for supervisors.
• Several modules combined to reduce total training time.

The PBSTC Continues to Deliver

• A tested, stable, and successful source of positive behavior support strategies to reduce challenging behavior.
• Performance and competency-based Curriculum requiring in-class activities, role plays, and on-the-job demonstration of skills.
• Trains supervisors on managerial duties, including staff observations, performance analysis, and evaluating PBS plans.
•  “Right out of the box” trainer curriculum comes with activity sheets, skills checks, and PowerPoint slides on CD-ROM!
• Fosters ample student and teacher interaction with enjoyable team activities.
• Proven to create culture of respect for people with intellectual disability.

How to buy the Curriculum

With each set of PBSTC, you will get a handsome 3-ring binder, one Trainee Resource Guide for note taking, and a CD-ROM with a PowerPoint presentation. 

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Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum Trainee Resource Guide (2nd Edition)
The take-away Trainee Resource Guide summarizes 25 modules taught in the Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum. Meant for trainee note-taking and reference. Each PBSTC set comes with one Trainee Resource Guide. Purchase a Trainee Resource Guides for each trainee attending the session.

Praise for the Curriculum

“The PBSTC is an excellent training tool. The Curriculum includes the acquisition and mastery of trainee performance skills that are essential to practicing PBS in work settings.” 
Carolyn Greene, School Administrator, J. Iverson Riddle Developmental Center, North Carolina

"The PBSTC Curriculum provides a wonderful base of understanding for staff with no previous training or experience and enhances the skills of well-seasoned staff. The Curriculum is very well designed and is both teacher and student friendly. It is a succint program that allows ample student interaction and participation."
Donna Boyd, Tri-Developmental Center of Aiken County, South Carolina

“We are using the PBSTC as part of our pre-service training program and eventually all of our 600 employees will be trained with this Curriculum. The benefit to clients is the creation of a culture within our organization that treats people as individuals while setting a more supportive and caring environment. I have recommended without hesitation the PBSTC to my colleagues who espouse a PBS philosophy as well as those who are grounded in Applied Behavior Analysis.”
Michael F. Dorsey,  Professor of Education, Director - The Institute for Behavioral Studies, Endicott College

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