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Parent Support Group 
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BFOCASD Brevard Families of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (or Similar Disabilities).
BFOCASD meetings are the first Wednesday of every month from 7-9 p.m.
Brevard County, Florida

Developed by Janie Haugen-McLane, It's Up to Me is a self-monitoring system that encourages individuals to closely examine their own behavior and change negative behaviors to positive behaviors. The complete system includes a Teacher's Binder with reproducible forms and activity sheets and six three-ring Participant Binders.

This unique program challenges individuals to improve their behavior at home, work, school, in the community, and at mealtime. Individuals take responsibility for charting their own behavior on a daily basis in their own motivational behavior notebooks. Six different motivational notebook covers are included in this program. Instructors can also monitor individual progress to ensure accuracy.

Charting is made easy with visual cues. Individuals with little or no reading skills can easily monitor their own behavior with this easy-to-use, self-monitoring system. The Teacher's Binder includes 150 objectives that cover a person's entire day from getting out of bed in the morning and preparing for school or work to dinner and bedtime.

Teaching objectives in five categories:

• Home
• School and Work
• Community
• Mealtime
• Behavior

Sample Objectives

• I will act nice to my roommate this morning.
• I will do my chores today.
• I will talk in a nice way to my teacher or supervisor today.
• I will follow all the rules at ______ today.
• I will act nice to people in my neighborhood today.
• I will NOT leave my group to go with a stranger today.
• I will make my breakfast today.
• I will take my dishes to the kitchen after I eat ______ today.
• I will NOT argue with people today.
• I will act nice when I ride in a car, van, or bus today.

It's Up to Me is an excellent communication resource that links teachers, professional and direct care staff, parents, and the participants. The system's steps provide consistency for changing behavior patterns by allowing the individual to choose whether to behave in an acceptable or unacceptable manner.

Teacher's Binder
It's Up to Me Teacher's Binder features all the materials you need to implement the program. It includes a four-step, easy-to-follow process with detailed instructions:
1. Participant completes "My Behavior" Worksheet
2. An Interdisciplinary Team Meeting is held
3. Staff explains It's Up to Me plan to participant
4. Staff monitors program on a regular basis

Monitoring Behaviors
Individuals can monitor behavior using symbols to denote feelings and success/failure of achieving objectives on a daily basis. Five "feelings faces" (Happy, O.K., Tired, Mad, and Sad) provide individuals with symbols to denote their feelings that day. The "check mark" and "x mark" provide individuals with a marking tool to denote success or failure of achieving each objective on a daily basis.

Monitoring worksheets contain the objective, brief instructions for completing the worksheet, notes to individual, and a blank calendar. Individuals use these worksheets to monitor behavior on a daily basis. This highly visual worksheets promote consistency in behavior modification. Blackline master forms are included for continual reproduction.

This self-monitoring behavior program is a must-have for educators working with individuals of all ages who need behavior modification. The program is easy-to-use and promotes individual responsibility. A set of six additional binders is also available and sold separately.

pci $69.95

Token Boards

Front side of Token Board	Back of Token Board with Available Choices

A token board is a visual reward system which allows a student to clearly see what he will receive after completing a certain amount of work. In the example shown above, the student needs to earn 10 tokens before being allowed to watch a video. Token boards teach delayed gratification, and allow a student to feel in charge of what reward he will be receiving. They also allow the student to see when a less-desirable activity or chore will be done.

How to Create Token Boards

Supplies you will need

Most of the following supplies are available at an office supply store:

1. Velcro dots and a fuzzy strip of velcro
2. Laminating sheets, clear contact paper, or card stock
3. 1 piece of construction paper
4. Plastic name holder (found in literature display section of office store)
5. Scissors 
6. Glue Stick
7. Picture This... Pro Click Here for purchase info

Before you create a token board, you must know what motivates your student.  Once you know what your student likes, use Picture This... Pro to print 3" x 3" copies of the favorite motivators.  You can either laminate these pictures, print them on heavy card stock, or glue them to card stock.  On the back of each motivator card, stick a prickly velcro dot.

Now, use Picture This... Pro Software (sold here) to create a grid of 1.5" x 1.5" squares with colored borders.  Cut off the top two rows and glue them to the bottom right corner of your colored paper.  Using the same grid, fill it with 10 copies of each of your student's favorite reinforcers (for example, video).  Print the page; laminate it; cut it; and stick prickly velcro dots on the back of each little reinforcer.

Now create a 3.5" x 3" square that says "I am working for".   Glue this to the bottom left corner of your colored paper.

Cut the colored paper so that it will fit in the plastic name holder.  Slide the paper into the holder.

Stick a fuzzy velcro strip to the back of the name holder  (the side away from the grid).

Stick velcro dots onto the front of the holder (one in the center of each square in the grid, plus one on the "I want" card).

How to Use the Token Board

When the student is about to begin a task, ask "What do you want to work for?", and show him the choices on the back. Prompt him to take the card off and place it on "I am working for" square. Each time that he answers a question correctly while you are working with him, hand him a token that he can place on the grid. Occasionally ask "How many more tokens do you need?" and count the blank squares. Depending on the child's ability level, you can create token boards with more squares or fewer as shown in the following examples.

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