Emotional Disturbance Resource Room
STARTUP GUIDE
Whether you are managing an Emotional Disturbance Resource room or trying to establish a top restrictive level of service for unidentified aggressive students, there are several considerations when creating resources for students with emotional need:
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SAFETY: Establish a Safety Plan for the classroom, who are your go-to team trained in crisis prevention, what is policy for seclusion?
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ENVIRONMENT: Reduce visual stimulation and materials that can be broken, establish Zones of Proximity with visual cues and rules in each setting.
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INTERVENTION: What research-based strategies are you using to teach positive behavior?
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REINFORCEMENT: How are students being positively reinforced? What is your classroom management system?
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DATA: What / How are you charting for each student? Electronically? Paper-based? Are students self charting?
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COMMUNICATION: How are you communicating daily progress to the student, family, teaching team, administrators?
Communication Sheet
Click here to find a printable guide for the room
ENVIRONMENT:
Classroom Structure
SAFETY:
Safe Room Protocol
CLICK HERE FOR THE SAFETY RESOURCE TEMPLATES OF:
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Permission form for seclusion practice
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Time out log (State Mandated)
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State-based Seclusion Policy
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Safety plan templates
CLICK HERE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT RESOURCE TEMPLATES OF:
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Morning Check-ins with Students (Maslow's Checklist)
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Zones of Proximity (visually cue restriction)
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CLICK HERE FOR THE SENSORY RESOURCE TEMPLATES OF:
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Setting up sensory space in your classroom
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Inventories of student sensory need
CLICK HERE FOR THE REINFORCEMENT RESOURCE TEMPLATES OF:
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Menus of free reinforcement ideas
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Matrices of reinforcement
HAVE EACH STUDENT MANAGE A STUDENT BINDER:
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Problem solving / apology letters
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Things I would like to earn checklist
CLICK HERE FOR THE INTERVENTION RESOURCE TEMPLATES OF:
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Tier III Social Pragmatic interventions
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Tier III Aggression Interventions
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Red Flag replacement behaviors
REINFORCEMENT:
Student IEP / BIP Summaries
INTERVENTION:
Research-based Strategies
DATA: Student IEP / BIP Summaries
COMMUNICATION: Student IEP / BIP Summaries
CLICK HERE FOR THE DATA RESOURCE TEMPLATES OF:
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Student self-monitoring data binders
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Staff electronic data keeping
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Trend data based decision making for ED
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Create a Google doc sheet for each student with whom you work. Use THIS TEMPLATE
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Create a Google doc sheet for each student with whom you work. Use THIS TEMPLATE or print the summary sheet from Progress Book or your online management system.
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Share the IEP summary sheet with all Regular Ed teachers
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Give teachers a way to communicate goal progress to you with a HARD COPY TEMPLATE or an ELECTRONIC TEMPLATE.
FLOW CHART FOR STUDENT REFERRAL to ED
