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The Ethics of Being an Adult: Can You Do What You Want When You Want?

Posted on September 15, 2019 by Adrian McCune

Recently, I started teaching adults with disabilities. As part of my new position, I was sent to training on helping adults create a life they value. The trick is to help adults create a life they want but also help them create a life their support system will, well, support. The trainer advised that we…

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I Love Lucy (and Social Skills)!

Posted on September 8, 2019 by Adrian McCune

Recently I started teaching adults. While plenty of adults watch Pixar and Disney movies, I started searching for something a little more relatable with human characters. I came up with I Love Lucy, Spiderman, anything Avengers, Friends, Harry Potter, and Seinfeld. Lucy came off the clear winner with the adults. I used the “Zones in…

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Mands, Tacts, and Intraverbals, Oh My!

Posted on September 1, 2019 by Adrian McCune

The first time I heard these words I was in a VB-MAPP training surrounded by (gasp!) special education teachers. That’s right! The district BCBA was teaching a room full of special education teachers how to conduct the VB-MAPP (shocking, I know). There is a huge debate about whether teachers SHOULD be allowed to conduct the…

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Self-Determination & Social Skills: Using Goals to Help Students Analyze Behavior

Posted on August 25, 2019 by Adrian McCune

Last year I was sent to Self-Determination (ones ability to make choices and control their own life) for Students with Disabilities training. The presenter discussed how it’s never to soon to ask your child (with or without disabilities) what their goals are and help them create a plan to get there. Your 3 year old…

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The Good Behavior Game: What is it, how does it work and what’s the science?

Posted on August 18, 2019 by Adrian McCune

The Good Behavior Game is a PBIS practice that has been around since 1969. It is considered a whole group, tier-one intervention in the PBIS process (meaning it is meant to be used with a whole class). To play the Good Behavior Game, the teacher splits the class into two teams. When a team member…

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Just calm down! Breathe!

Posted on August 11, 2019 by Adrian McCune

“Just calm down, breathe!” the teacher was saying as I entered the room to offer support. The student started crying louder. The teacher looked at me upset “I don’t know what he wants and he won’t calm down!” this declaration came as the student landed a punch, right in the teacher’s nose. A teaching assistant…

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Zones of Regulation: You (may) be doing it wrong!

Posted on August 4, 2019 by Adrian McCune

It’s the start of a new school year here in Texas and like most teachers, I hopped on Pinterest to see what other teachers were putting together. I started a new position and wanted to see if anyone had used Zones of Regulation with adults transitioning to the community. In case you are not familiar…

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Teaching Groupwork Through Cooperative Games

Posted on July 28, 2019 by Adrian McCune

Working in a public school brings its challenges. One of those is group work activities and projects. I often circumvent this by writing into student IEP’s that they can choose to do the project alone. Choosing to do the project alone adds another layer of stress – the kiddo is now in charge of the…

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Social Thinking: A Review (from someone who has actually taught it!)

Posted on July 21, 2019 by Adrian McCune

If you follow the academia papers (and really who doesn’t!) you’ve seen this paper on Social Thinking analyzing whether or not Social Thinking is pseudoscience and harmful to those with autism. Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke of Social Thinking responded (you can see it here) that while their curriculum has not been tested in…

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Let’s Talk Antecedent Interventions

Posted on July 14, 2019July 14, 2019 by Adrian McCune

About four weeks ago I was working in my classroom with a student on giving up his preferred reinforcer. We were doing a work/break/work/break routine with lots of positive praise being given when the student handed over the IPad at the end of break (signaled by a timer). The student was doing amazing when the…

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