Workshop: Grooming good community skills: Effectively dealing with challenging behaviors

[Guest guest]

Happy Holidays parents, guardians, and supporters! Due to popular demand, we are

offering partial scholarships in the form of discounted seating for all

remaining seats in our upcoming December workshop;

Grooming good community skills: Effectively dealing with challenging behaviors

Presented by Batts

on

December 16, 2006

9:00am - 12:00pm

at

Focus on the Future Training Center

Recreation Room

3405 Custer Road, Suite 100

Plano , Texas 75023

The primary focus of this workshop is to equip parents and teachers with the

critical skills needed to help children with special needs successfully adapt to

the community. We will teach parents and teachers how to help children with

special needs adapt to their school, and community environments with greater

ease. This is a area in which parents and teachers of children with special

needs experience a high degree of anxiety and frustration without some kind of

intervention..

This workshop focuses on teaching parents and teachers skills that enable them

to minimize behavior problems when taking their children to public places such

as the supermarket, the movies, or the doctor¢s office. Our children need and

deserve the opportunity to participate fully in their community. If your

child's behavior problems include aggression, self-mutilation, throwing self on

floor, screaming, biting, difficulty going to a restaurant, grocery store,

doctor's office, and other necessary places, then this workshop is for you. Some

specific areas of focus for this workshop will include:

Identifying and addressing environmental stimuli that may be offensive or

irritating to your child that may be causing their inappropriate behaviors.

Assessing your child's level of behavior difficulty and establishing

developmental appropriate goals and objectives designed to address the problem

behaviors.

Learn about developing Behavior Supports or SPECs (Structure, Physiological,

Environmental, Communication, and Sensory issues) to help normalize and improve

your child's behavior.

Learn how to develop effective work and social schedules to reduce your child's

anxiety and improve their basic self help skills (work, getting dressed and

ready for bedtime).

Learn how to identify and address environmental sensory issues like lighting,

noises, and temperature, and even certain colors may be contributing to your

child's behavior problems.

We've all been through it; the embarrassment of our children running and

screaming in public places and refusing to go to certain necessary places such

as the dentist, grocery store, or to the mall. There are effective methods for

dealing with these challenges. The solution is often times more simple than we

think. Come and learn about common techniques that have been proven on hundreds

of children with special needs that you can implement to help that special child

in your life. The presence of a diagnosis should not mark the absence of having

a full social life. Our children are a part of this world, and as part of this

world, they deserve to derive the most from it.

Cost is $29.95 per seat. Light refreshments will be served and workshops

handouts given.

All seats purchased through our website at http://focussped.com/Services.htm are

guaranteed.

Seating for this workshop is limited. I hope to see you there! You may also

call me at with questions.

Best Regards,

M. Batts

www.focussped.com