1. Behavior Support for Students  Birth to 22 Who Are Visually Impaired Illinois Service Resource Center
Serving the Behavioral Needs of Students who are
Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Visually Impaired
IAER Conference – Feb. 16, 2017

2. Illinois Service Resource Center
Funded by Illinois State Board of Education
Federal IDEA Funds
Statewide Service and Resource Center
Partner of Illinois Multi-Tiered System of Support Network
Established 1993 by HI/BD Board
Part of Illinois School Code
Vision added 2016

3. Illinois Service Resource Center
Resources
Newsletter
Digital Update
Resource Directory

5. Illinois Service Resource Center
Resource Library
Over 1200 items
Books, DVDs, Games
Materials mailed with return postage
Materials for educators, families, students
Behavior, ASD, AD/HD, social emotional, parenting, teens, visual impairment, Deaf Culture, task boxes

7. Illinois Service Resource Center
Schools/ Educators
Individual student support / Home-School Teams
Data collection coaching
Behavior Teams
E-Learning Academy
Classroom Management Mentoring
School-wide positive behavior support

9. Illinois Service Resource Center
Students
How Full Is Your Bucket
Deaf Student Network
Deaf Can Do It Community Service Day
Leadership Day
White Cane Day

11. Illinois Service Resource Center
Parents/ Families
Home visits
Home-School Teams
Parent Connections newsletter
Parent Facilitators – increase parent involvement
Crisis intervention
24 hour helpline

14. Parent/Family Involvement Checklist
Elementary School (Ages 5-10)
Goal
Ideas
What I did
Parenting
Establish behavioral expectations at home
- Consistent expectations, terminology, and reinforcements/consequences at home and school.
- Investigate technology, i.e. alarm clocks
Communicating
Develop format to share information about your child with the school
Notebook, brochure, PowerPoint, All About Me
Volunteering
Identify volunteer opportunities and participate
Attend open house, look at newsletters and websites, find out what volunteer opportunities are available, and pick one or more.
Learning at home
Provide opportunities to enhance learning from school.
- Establish regular time for homework.
- Know what your child is studying in school - check school website for resources, read newsletters, be involved in communication with teacher.
Decision making
Have a voice in policies, practices, and programs at school.
Join parent groups, advisory councils, and committees
- Participate in your child’s IEP Team meeting
Collaborating with the community
Be aware of and utilize services and resources in the community.
- Attend special recreation programs and camps
- Attend library events
- Attend school events, such as Parent Cafés.
- Participate in community service projects

15. Behavior at Home/ Comportamiento de la Casa
Responsible:
Pick up toys
Responsabilidad:
Juntar juguetes
Hang up coat
Cuelga la chamarra
Respectful:
Use kind words
Respeto:
palabras amables
Keep hands to self
Mantener tus manos hacia si mismo
Safety:
Wash hands
Seguridad:
Lava las manos
Keep the floor clean
Manener el piso limpio

16. Why is behavior important?
Problem behavior continues to be the primary reason why individuals in our society are excluded from school, home, recreation, community, and work.

17. Good Job Environmental Change More often than you say
Can you create an environment where you say
Good Job
More often than you say
Stop It
Quit It
Don’t?

18. It’s harder than you think
Something “wrong” triggers an emotional response and you react with correction
Lack of something “wrong” does NOT give you a trigger to respond/react.
“Dirty underwear phenomenon”

19. State it Positively
State the behavior you WANT to see vs. the behavior you do NOT want to see

20. State the Behavior you Want
Don’t Want
Want
Up too late
To bed late
Back talk
Horseplay
Kicking/hitting

21. With a partner Write the behavior you WANT to see.
Activity
With a partner Write the behavior you WANT to see.

22. Say This Not That Say This Not That
Stop throwing your coat on the floor. 
Don’t hit your sister. 
Quit that yelling. 
Stop making a mess. 
Stop playing video games (iPad/T.V.) 

23. Time to use your TeMPR Teach Model Prompt Reinforce
Photo of magic wand inserted here

24. How will you use your tempr?
How Will You Teach?
How Will You Model?
How Will You Prompt?
How Will You Reinforce?

25. A little bit of math….
4 to 1
Positive to Negative

26. 1 negative
4 positive
How much more??

27. Illinois Service Resource Center
Social Emotional Learning Standards – 2004
Multiple Tiers of Behavior Support
Services and Resources at all three tiers of Response to Intervention Model
Universal – School-wide, Classroom-wide
Secondary – Check In Check Out
Tertiary – Individualized onsite student support

28. Multi-tier Model of Service Delivery
Academic Systems
Behavioral Systems
1-5%
1-5%
Intensive, Individual Interventions
Intensive, Individual Interventions
5-10%
5-10%
Targeted Group Interventions
Targeted Group Interventions
80-90%
80-90%
Universal Interventions
Universal Interventions 28

29. Illinois Service Resource Center
Use your TeMPR
Develop ways to
Teach, Model, Prompt and Reinforce
expected behaviors

30. Ideas and Input Resources for Visual Impairment
Services for Visual Impairment

31. Illinois Service Resource Center
Cheri Sinnott