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<blockquote data-quote="alongfortheride" data-source="post: 267309" data-attributes="member: 3817"><p>In our SD, there is a specific program housed in an elementary school for ED and Autistic students. Those paras are highly trained, PMT, DTI, etc. We have a padded timeout room used as a last resort for truely unsafe behaviors. The program has 6-8 children per classroom each with a teacher and 2 paras. Highly structured BM program. When in the time out room our log is mostly about the antecedent behavior and the unsafe incident. That is the information that can be used to attempt to avoid a return to the TO. Of course we do note if there is any unsafe behaviors in the TO room, such as banging head into glass (a favorite) or using clothing for strangulation. Most often these students are seeking physical contact because when they continue to harm themselves, we must go to a physical restraint. Some of these kids know that they will not calm in the openness of the room, but need to have there environment restricted further by a floor management or security hold. As I said, these paras are well trained.</p><p></p><p>The elementary school paras have no training. No clue how to de-escalate, no training in do's and don'Tourette's Syndrome and even worse no idea which battles to pick. Most have not even seen the BMP or FBA of the students they are working with because the sped teacher wants complete control over information. It truly is sad that these women are so handicapped at their job.</p><p></p><p>There absolutely must be a standard of training. Unfortunately, with NCLB the SDs are concentrating what little training they offer through in services on the academic portion of their job, not the behavioral aspect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alongfortheride, post: 267309, member: 3817"] In our SD, there is a specific program housed in an elementary school for ED and Autistic students. Those paras are highly trained, PMT, DTI, etc. We have a padded timeout room used as a last resort for truely unsafe behaviors. The program has 6-8 children per classroom each with a teacher and 2 paras. Highly structured BM program. When in the time out room our log is mostly about the antecedent behavior and the unsafe incident. That is the information that can be used to attempt to avoid a return to the TO. Of course we do note if there is any unsafe behaviors in the TO room, such as banging head into glass (a favorite) or using clothing for strangulation. Most often these students are seeking physical contact because when they continue to harm themselves, we must go to a physical restraint. Some of these kids know that they will not calm in the openness of the room, but need to have there environment restricted further by a floor management or security hold. As I said, these paras are well trained. The elementary school paras have no training. No clue how to de-escalate, no training in do's and don'Tourette's Syndrome and even worse no idea which battles to pick. Most have not even seen the BMP or FBA of the students they are working with because the sped teacher wants complete control over information. It truly is sad that these women are so handicapped at their job. There absolutely must be a standard of training. Unfortunately, with NCLB the SDs are concentrating what little training they offer through in services on the academic portion of their job, not the behavioral aspect. [/QUOTE]
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