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The Brain
Neurological Factors that Affect
Behavior and Learning
Hello!I am Layne Pethick+ Consultant for ASD and Behavior
at Region 10 ESC
+ You can contact me at
Expectations for our time together…
+Blanket Apology
+Talking
+Learning
Two Main Rules for Spending Time with Me:
+#1 - Enjoy yourself
+#2 - You must have a sense of humor
Parents and Gardeners
Basic Agenda
+ The Brain
+ Something to Think About
+ Food For Thought
Let’s Begin
It’s
Me
Let the Layers Begin
“Labels…labels…labels”
The Layers Build
BIP
IEP
visuals
LRE
programming
antecedents Labels
…and Build
BIP
IEP
visuals
In-home
LRE
programming
antecedents More labels…
EBPs
Through All the Layers and
Labels…
vocalization
No
n-c
om
plia
nt
FBA
BIP
IEP
traumaaggression
visuals
In-home
LRE
programming
antecedents Even more labels…
EBPs
…remember there is a child under there.
ABA
So…How Do We Begin to Look
Beyond the Labels?
• Looking beyond the labels and seeing the individual child is vital
for decisions made regarding interventions, practices,
strategies…life…
• Today we will look at the BRAIN…the very thing that holds the
key to all of our children!
Experts and Specialists…
• Are you paying attention to the expert (the only expert
that exists)?
It All Starts with the Brain!
• How is the child’s brain processing information?
• How do you begin figuring out the child’s brain?
• Parents and teachers need to carefully select and
“tweak” interventions, strategies, and practices to match
the individual child.
First…
The Brain
Brain Development+How our brains develop tends to be opposite of our education system and some parent expectations…
+The human brain develops from the back to front…the education system and sometimes parenting is largely set up as front to back…
+Educators and other adults have the ability to off set some of this opposition simply by the way they interact with children…
You are the
surrogate
frontal lobe!
The Brain and Attention
+It is IMPOSSIBLE to “not pay attention”; the brain is ALWAYS paying attention
+Attention is selective
+Sustained attention to something you can’t understand is not only boring, but almost impossible…(think about instructional practices in classrooms)…human beings do not attend to or store meaningless information
The Brain and Emotion
+Emotion drives attention and attention drives
learning and memory
Fixations…AKA
“The window in…”
So What is REALLY Happening???
The Brain and Stress
+Anxiety increases cognitive rigidity (my term:
Stress makes you stupid)
+Stressed adults = stressed children
+BREATHE!!!
A Day in the Life
How Do You Feel?
+What are your initial reactions to “the test”?
+The more stress…the harder it is to deal with
“life”
Spelling Test!!
+Are you ready???
““Children have never been very good at
listening to their elders, but they have
NEVER failed to imitate them.”
~James Baldwin~
Something to Think
About…
Exclusive = Exclusion
Peers…The real world…
+Peers
Food for ThoughtIf We Have Time…
Function vs. Form
+Addressing the FORM is only temporary
+Addressing the FUNCTION is life changing
+The function of the behavior is the motivation behind it or what is maintaining it…it is the answer to the question “WHY?”
+The form of the behavior is the topography: what does it look like, sound like, how intense is it, how long does it last, how often does it occur
**IMPORTANT – A behavior can have multiple functions
It’s All About the Data
Data
Data MUST be:
Simple – easy, quick, and to the point
Accurate – done with fidelity, honesty, and integrity
Collect baseline data for minimum of 3 weeks
(consider time of year also)
Use data to make hypothesis on the FUNCTION of the
behavior (Why is the student doing what they are doing?)
What does the data show?
BEHAVIOR
No Patterns (Automatic)
Patterns
(Socially Mediated)
Behavior Explained…Socially Mediated Positive
(External)
*Someone else provides something that is preferred
Socially Mediated Negative (External)
*Someone else removes a non-preferred or aversive
Automatic Positive (Internal)
*You provide something that is preferred
Automatic Negative (Internal)
*You remove a non-preferred or aversive
Behavior
Behavior Needs to be
Taught…Not just rewarded and punished…
(move your clothespin…here’s your
Skittle)
REMEMBER…
It’s
Me!!We don’t treat
labels, we help
the child!
Why I Do What I Do
+Story
Thank You!