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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:

 

  • SAFETY: Establish a Safety Plan for the classroom, who are your go-to team trained in crisis prevention, what is policy for seclusion?

 

  • ENVIRONMENT: Reduce visual stimulation and materials that can be broken, establish Zones of Proximity with visual cues and rules in each setting. 

 

  • INTERVENTION: What research-based strategies are you using to teach positive behavior?

 

  • REINFORCEMENT:  How are students being positively reinforced?  What is your classroom management system?

 

  • DATA: What / How are you charting for each student?  Electronically? Paper-based?  Are students self charting?

 

  • 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:

  • Permission form for seclusion practice

  • Time out log (State Mandated)

  • State-based Seclusion Policy

  • Safety plan templates

CLICK HERE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT RESOURCE TEMPLATES OF:

  • Morning Check-ins with Students (Maslow's Checklist)

  • Zones of Proximity (visually cue restriction)

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CLICK HERE FOR THE SENSORY RESOURCE TEMPLATES OF:

  • Setting up sensory space in your classroom

  • Inventories of student sensory need

CLICK HERE FOR THE REINFORCEMENT RESOURCE TEMPLATES OF:

  • Menus of free reinforcement ideas

  • Matrices of reinforcement

 

HAVE EACH STUDENT MANAGE A STUDENT BINDER:

  • Problem solving / apology letters

  • Things I would like to earn checklist

 

CLICK HERE FOR THE INTERVENTION RESOURCE TEMPLATES OF:

  • Tier III Social Pragmatic interventions

  • Tier III Aggression Interventions

  • Red Flag replacement behaviors

  • STUDENT THINK SHEETS

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:

  • Student self-monitoring data binders

  • Staff electronic data keeping

  • Trend data based decision making for ED

  • Create a Google doc sheet for each student with whom you work.  Use THIS TEMPLATE

 

  • 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.

 

  • Share the IEP summary sheet with all Regular Ed teachers

 

 

 

FLOW CHART FOR STUDENT REFERRAL to ED

 

 

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