Role Play- If you are working with a professional, role play with that person first before you role play with your child. This helps you think through the process and adjust as necessary.
- Make changes in how you will work out your intervention plan, then role play with your child.
Examples of How to Teach New Alternative Competing Behaviors- Visual Task Folders
- Social Stories
Visual Task Folders- Divide the new alternative competing behavior into 2–4 steps.
- Take photographs of the child completing each step of the new alternative competing behavior. Photographs may work best for children who do not yet read. Place a piece of Velcro on each photograph.
- Attach a strip of Velcro to a file folder.
- Create a "Done" pocket on the file, so your child can place the photograph in the pocket when the task is finished.
Social Stories- Describe where the situation happens and who is there.
- Explain in 1–2 simple steps how to do the new alternative competing behavior.
- Express feelings of those around your child, as well as your child's feelings when doing the new competing behavior.
- Visual Task Folders
- Social Stories
Visual Task Folders- Divide the new alternative competing behavior into 2–4 steps.
- Take photographs of the child completing each step of the new alternative competing behavior. Photographs may work best for children who do not yet read. Place a piece of Velcro on each photograph.
- Attach a strip of Velcro to a file folder.
- Create a "Done" pocket on the file, so your child can place the photograph in the pocket when the task is finished.
Social Stories- Describe where the situation happens and who is there.
- Explain in 1–2 simple steps how to do the new alternative competing behavior.
- Express feelings of those around your child, as well as your child's feelings when doing the new competing behavior.
- Describe where the situation happens and who is there.
- Explain in 1–2 simple steps how to do the new alternative competing behavior.
- Express feelings of those around your child, as well as your child's feelings when doing the new competing behavior.