Dear fellow Hanoverians:
Please join the Hanover community as the SEPAC presents :
Effective Strategies For Students with Anxiety-Related Behavior
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Meeting Location:
Hanover High School
(Media Center – First Floor)
287 Cedar Street, Hanover
Description:
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) reports that 1 in 4 13-18 year
olds has had an anxiety disorder in their lifetime. Without
intervention, these children are at risk for poor performance,
diminished learning, and social/behavior problems in school.
Understanding the role anxiety plays in a student’s behavior is
crucial and using preventive strategies are key to successful
intervention. Effective behavior plans for these students must avoid
the reward and punishment-based consequences from traditional behavior
plans and focus instead on the use of preventive strategies and on
explicitly teaching coping skills, self-monitoring, and alternative
responses.
Easy to implement preventive tools, strategies, and interventions for
reducing anxiety, increasing self-regulation, executive functioning,
and self-monitoring will be discussed.
Presented by: Jessica Minahan MEd, BCBA
Jessica, is a board certified behavior analyst and special educator
and a consultant to schools nationwide (www.jessicaminahan.com).
Jessica has over seventeen years of experience supporting students who
exhibit challenging behavior in urban public school systems. She is a
blogger on The Huffington Post, as well as the author of The Behavior
Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most
Challenging Students, with Nancy Rappaport (Harvard Education Press,
2012) and author of The Behavior Code Companion: Strategies, Tools,
and Interventions for Supporting Students with Anxiety-Related or
Oppositional Behaviors (Harvard Education Press, 2014).
For more information please visit the SEPAC Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/HanoverPAC
or e-mail Carrie at cbellerby@AEW.com .
For “Around Town on the Web”,
Cathy H-B
—
“Around Town on the Web” (“ATOTW”) has been a valued push notification
since the spring of 2004 – long before there were push notifications!
For submission guidelines and answers to frequently asked questions
about “ATOTW”, please go to http://www.atotw.com.
To search for archived “ATOTW” news, view the archive
.
If you would like to be added to this distribution list, click here
.
Please follow the link in the response e-mail to validate your
account. You will not receive “ATOTW” e-mails until you complete this
step.
If you would like to be removed from this distribution list, click
here
.
— powered by phpList, www.phplist.com —