By Padmaja Sarathy

Utilizing the most current research and evidence-based practices, this comprehensive guide details real-world scenarios that illustrate practical, preventive strategies and environmental and instructional support tools to address challenging behaviors of students with autism. Administrators and teachers will learn how to use a caring, rather than punitive, intervention approach and gain a greater understanding of how to deliver supports based on each student's unique needs.

Reduce, or even eliminate, the use of restraint and seclusion with strategies to:

• Implement age- and setting-appropriate positive behavior intervention strategies across varying situations
• Ensure structure and predictability to lessen triggering events that cause disruptive behaviors
• Use a hierarchy of supportive consequences to address problem behaviors
• Train and coach paraeducators to deliver behavior support and prevent behavior escalation
• Cultivate calmness and coping skills with mindfulness-based practices
• And more