RESOURCES
Products
Preference Assessment Tools
To help address the question: How can we more easily identify enjoyable activities for students with profound disabilities? our team created a Decision Tree to help select an appropriate method for determining preferred items and instructional preference assessment forms for the different methods:
Free Operant Preference Assessment
Pairwise Preference Assessment
Single Stimulus Preference Assessment
Multiple Stimulus with Replacement
Multiple Stimulus without Replacement
Medication Fact Sheets
To help address the question: What are some common medications received by students with special needs, and how do they typically affect behaviour? our team created full and condensed versions of quick reference guides for teachers for medications commonly prescribed to students.
Practical Scripts
To help address the question: What specific research-supported strategies can be used to manage challenging behaviours of students with intellectual/developmental disabilities? our team created practical scripts for teachers derived from research-based approaches to decrease challenging behaviours in students with autism or developmental disabilities.
Presentations
Our team presented at the Manitoba Association for Behaviour Analysis Conference 2011 in Winnipeg. We presented on: Year 1 Activities of the School KT Project.
Our team presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research 2012 in Toronto. We presented on: Effective Interventions for Challenging Behaviours.
Our team presented at the Geneva Centre for Autism International Symposium 2012 in Toronto. We presented on: Practical Applications of Preference Assessment, Effective Interventions for Challenging Behaviours (a presentation based on the previously presented poster at the International Meeting for Autism Research 2012), and the importance of Building Shared Vocabulary with Interdisciplinary Research Teams.
Our team presented at the Canadian Conference on Developmental Disabilities and Autism 2013 in Winnipeg. We presented on: How Changes in Personal Characteristics of Staff Affect Work with Students with Challenging Behaviours, Training Strategies for Teachers and Paraprofessionals who Encounter Challenging Behaviour Among Students with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, and How Perceived Causes of Challenging Behaviour in Persons with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities Impact Behaviour Management.
Our team presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis International 2013 in Minneapolis, MN. We presented on: A Decision-Making Model to Select Preference Assessments Procedures.
Members of our team presented at the 12th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education 2014 in Honolulu, HI. We presented on the implementation process and evaluation of our School KT Project.
Publications
To help address the question: What specific research-supported strategies can be used to manage challenging behaviours of students with intellectual/developmental disabilities? our team published an article titled, Interventions for Challenging Behaviours of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Developmental Disabilities: A Synthesis Paper.
To help address the question: How can we more easily identify enjoyable activities for students with profound disabilities? our team published an article titled, Clinical Decision Making and Preference Assessment for Individuals With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
To help address the question: What knowledge, skills, and attitudes must staff learn so that they can reduce the occurrence of challenging behaviour among students with intellectual/developmental disabilities? our team published a review paper titled, Reduce, manage or cope: A review of strategies for training school staff to address challenging behaviours displayed by students with intellectual/developmental disabilities.
Making Research Relevant for Teachers
A KATYDID team member wrote this story about her involvement with our School KT project as a special education teacher.
Research Recap for Teachers
Essential training for teachers who manage the challenging behaviours of students with intellectual and developmental disabilities is a lay-friendly summary of an academic article that we published last year.