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<blockquote data-quote="artana" data-source="post: 234248" data-attributes="member: 6186"><p>Hi,</p><p> </p><p>I'm just beginning to deal with some issues, but my children are younger than most on the boards, so others may have better advice. What I have is based on having a behavior therapist in the school. They have a system where the children get points on a behavior sheet that gets signed by every teacher. At the end of the day, the sped teacher gives him or her 2 "dollars" at the end of the week, the dollars can be spent on a toy or saved for the following week.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to that, at home we have instituted another suggestion by the behavior therapist. The children get their age in real dollars on Saturdays. Then, when they misbehave, they get money taken away (.50 cents per incident unless you think it's serious enough to go up to a dollar), if they want to play video games they pay 50 cents, if they want to go to sports they pay 50 cents. You set some long-term goals like if he collects X amount of money you will go to his favorite restaurant or if he collects way more money you will take him to a theme park (for example). </p><p> </p><p>If they want more money, they can do extra chores or you can enforce behaviors that you really want to enforce by giving them 50 cents for those behaviors (so, if you want him/her to wake up and be ready at a certain time, you give him 50 cents for that, but you do not necessarily take any money away if they can't do it), and you give them money based on the behavior points that they get from school. Therefore, better behavior = more money to play with. </p><p> </p><p>The other thing the behavior therapist warned us about was that the first 4 weeks on any behavior plan, the child might behave worse before they behave better and that it's perfectly normal. So anything you pick, stick with it for four weeks before you call it a failure.</p><p> </p><p>So...erm...that's what my advice is. It's been working pretty well. I might have to tweak it a bit, but behavior at school has improved and he is proud that he is saving money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="artana, post: 234248, member: 6186"] Hi, I'm just beginning to deal with some issues, but my children are younger than most on the boards, so others may have better advice. What I have is based on having a behavior therapist in the school. They have a system where the children get points on a behavior sheet that gets signed by every teacher. At the end of the day, the sped teacher gives him or her 2 "dollars" at the end of the week, the dollars can be spent on a toy or saved for the following week. In addition to that, at home we have instituted another suggestion by the behavior therapist. The children get their age in real dollars on Saturdays. Then, when they misbehave, they get money taken away (.50 cents per incident unless you think it's serious enough to go up to a dollar), if they want to play video games they pay 50 cents, if they want to go to sports they pay 50 cents. You set some long-term goals like if he collects X amount of money you will go to his favorite restaurant or if he collects way more money you will take him to a theme park (for example). If they want more money, they can do extra chores or you can enforce behaviors that you really want to enforce by giving them 50 cents for those behaviors (so, if you want him/her to wake up and be ready at a certain time, you give him 50 cents for that, but you do not necessarily take any money away if they can't do it), and you give them money based on the behavior points that they get from school. Therefore, better behavior = more money to play with. The other thing the behavior therapist warned us about was that the first 4 weeks on any behavior plan, the child might behave worse before they behave better and that it's perfectly normal. So anything you pick, stick with it for four weeks before you call it a failure. So...erm...that's what my advice is. It's been working pretty well. I might have to tweak it a bit, but behavior at school has improved and he is proud that he is saving money. [/QUOTE]
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