Skills in Depth: Strategies for managing behaviour and
developing social skills from 3 to 16 years
This page provides the planned programme and session
summaries for the Skills in Depth - Strategies for managing
behaviour and developing social skills training course.
Introduction
This training course will enable delegates to successfully
support children with Down syndrome aged 3-16 years to develop
age-appropriate social behaviour.
Participants will be divided into small groups for the workshops
to provide the opportunity to discuss the needs of individual
children and develop individual practical plans and programmes for
changing behaviour to implement during the workshops.
Programme
Content of each session
Keynote
1. Behaviours that present challenges to
families and to schools – how common are they, what causes them and
what can we do to change them?
- How common are behaviour difficulties among children with
Down syndrome?
- What sort of difficult behaviours are common?
- Why do they occur and what can we do to change them?
Workshops: Practical approaches to behaviour management
(Practical skills in depth)
Participants will be divided into small groups for the workshops
to provide the opportunity to discuss the needs of individual
children and develop individual practical plans and programmes for
changing behaviour to implement during the workshops.
2. Understanding specific behaviours –
sharing and analysing behaviours
- How to observe and record behaviour
- How to make sense of the observations and understand the
reasons for the behaviour
- Getting to grips with behavioural methods and terminology
3. Changing behaviours – strategies that work
- Drawing up a plan of action to change the behaviour
- Implementing the plan successfully
- The essential requirement to work as a team
- How to monitor progress
- When to change the plan
4. Maintaining changes and moving forward
- Ongoing staff and parent training
- Creating positive learning opportunities
- Extending social skills
- Building self-confidence and self-esteem
- Developing self- regulation
5. Continuing to support children's social
development
- Understanding individual and developmental differences
- Providing appropriate expectations and feedback
- Planning ahead - strategies to reduce the likelihood of
difficult behaviours occurring
Please note: Down Syndrome Education Internationalreserves the
right to alter this planned programme and the content of each
session, if necessary, in order to provide the best possible service
to the delegates booked into any one training event..