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Functional Behavioral Assessment and Positive Interventions: What Parents Need to Know
http://www.pacer.org/parent/php/PHP-c79.pdf
Where Is school Along the Path to Prison?
www.fape.org/idea/how_it_works/juv_where.htm
First Steps to Prevent Antisocial Behavior
www.fape.org/idea/how_it_works/juv_firststeps.htm
Safeguarding Our Children: An Action Guide
Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), U.S. Department of Education,
2000
www.ed.gov/admins/lead/safety/actguide/action_guide.pdf
This guide is intended to help schools and communities prevent school violence. The Action Guide emphasizes early intervention and prevention, and the importance of teamwork among educators, mental health professionals, parents, and students.
Results from looking at results from reports from each state on guns and schools. The Gun Free Schools Act requires schools to expel any student who brings a firearm to school. The time period of the expulsion needs to be at least one year.
Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools
OSEP
October 1998
www.fape.org/idea/How_it_works/warning.htm
This guide presents a brief summary of the research on violence prevention and intervention and crisis response in schools. It tells members of school communities - especially administrators, teachers, staff, families, students, and community-based professionals what to look for and what to do to help keep schools safe.
Youth with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System
OSEP
www.cec.sped.org/law_res/doc/resources/files/youthinjjsystem.pdf
Discusses the importance of preventing antisocial behavior, providing appropriate special education services, and helping the transition process for students with disabilities in the juvenile justice system. Students with disabilities are at risk for entering this system.
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
Centers for Disease Control and Federal Working Group on Youth Violence
www.safeyouth.org/home.htm
Central source of information on prevention and intervention programs, publications, research, and statistics on violence committed by and against children and teens.
Youth Crime/Adult Time: Is Justice Served?
Building Blocks for Youth
November 2000
www.fape.org/justice/blocks.htm
This study reveals disturbing trends in the transfer of youth, especially minority youth, to the adult criminal court. It raises serious questions about the fairness and appropriateness of prosecuting youth in adult court.
Parenting Resources for the 21st Century
Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
www.girlpower.gov/AdultsWhoCare/resources/Addresses/family.htm
This site strives to help families meet the challenges of raising a child today. It covers the topics of school violence, child development, home schooling, organized sports, child abuse, and the juvenile justice system.
Education as Crime Prevention: Providing Education to Prisoners
The Center on Crime, Communities & Culture
The Open Society Institute-New York
Criminal Justice Division
1977
www.soros.org/initiatives/justice/
Discusses the impact of education on crime and crime prevention, and examines the debate on providing higher education to inmates.
Addressing Student Problem Behavior: An IEP Team's Introduction To Functional Behavioral Assessment And Behavior Intervention Plans (2nd edition) In 3 parts
Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
http://cecp.air.org/fba/
Part I: An IEP Team's Introduction to Functional Behavioral Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plans
1998
http://cecp.air.org/fba/problembehavior/main.htm
A brief introduction to the concepts of functional behavior assessments (understanding why some action is happening) and behavior intervention plans (plan for changing the behavior using positive reinforcement, not punishment).
Part II: Conducting a Functional Behavioral Assessment
1998
http://cecp.air.org/fba/problembehavior2/main2.htm
Discusses the reasons why this type of assessment may be carried out. Also includes a step-by-step guide to carrying out the functional behavioral assessment.
Part III: Creating Positive Behavioral Intervention Plans and Supports
2000
http://cecp.air.org/fba/problembehavior3/main3.htm
Describes how to use information from a functional behavioral assessment to plan and implement a positive behavior intervention plan.
Research Brief Regional Intervention Program
www.fape.org/pubs/FAPE-17 Regional Intervention Program.pdf
Promising Practices Teaching Students to Self-Manage Their Behavior
www.fape.org/pubs/FAPE-20 Promising Practices.pdf
Research Brief: School Wide Behavior Programs
www.fape.org/pubs/FAPE-22 School-Wide Behavior Programs.pdf
Research Brief Students' Perceptions of Instruction in Inclusion Classrooms: Implications for Students with Learning Disabilities
www.fape.org/pubs/FAPE-26 Students Perceptions Instruction.pdf
Applying Positive Behavioral Supports and Functional Behavioral Assessments in Schools
OSEP Center for Positive Behavior Interventions and Support
August 1999
www.pbis.org/files/TAG1.doc
Defines positive behavioral supports and functional behavioral assessments concerning students with disabilities.
Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)
OSEP
1999
www.cec.sped.org/law_res/doc/resources/files/fba.pdf This two-page fact sheet from OSEP provides an overview of FBA, why it is important, and the important steps involved in conducting an FBA.
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
www.cec.sped.org/law_res/doc/resources/files/pbis.pdf
General overview of positive behavioral interventions and supports and how they are proving an effective means of reducing problem behaviors in children with and without disabilities.
Role of Education in a System of Care: Effectively Serving Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
1998
http://cecp.air.org/promisingpractices/1998monographs/execsumvol3.htm (English)
http://cecp.air.org/promisingpractices/1998monographs/resprinvol3.htm (Spanish)
This article discusses the successful approaches used several schools to create a comprehensive school-based system of care for children with serious emotional disorders. Executive summary available in Spanish.
Safe, Drug-Free, and Effective Schools for ALL Students: What Works!
Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
Mary Magee Quinn, Ph.D.
David Osher, Ph.D
Catherine Hoffman, A.B.
U.S. Department of Education
Tom V. Hanley, Ed.D
1998
http://cecp.air.org/resources/resource.asp
Report on a study of schools that managed to reduce discipline problems and improve the learning and behavior of all students, including those with disabilities.
School wide Approaches to Behavior
OSEP
www.cec.sped.org/law_res/doc/resources/files/schoolwideapproach.pdf
Discusses an approach to behavior that involves entire schools and results in a positive learning environment for all students.
Social Skills Instruction
OSEP
http://www.cec.sped.org/law_res/doc/resources/files/socialskills.pdf
Introduces the importance of social skill instruction in the management of problem behavior.
Discipline for Children With Disabilities
OSEP
From Preamble to IDEA 1999 Regulations
www.cec.sped.org/law_res/doc/law/addl_material/discipline.php
A summary of key changes in the regulations regarding discipline for children with disabilities. Includes answers some commonly asked questions about discipline under IDEA.
Discipline Procedures
March 1999
www.cec.sped.org/law_res/doc/law/briefs/brief05.php
OSEP Topic Brief on key points associated with the discipline procedures in the final regulations.
Non-cessation of Educational Services
NASDSE
Project Forum
June 1999
This Quick Turn-Around Report is a summary of information from three States (California, Hawaii, and Nebraska) regarding non-cessation of educational services following suspension or expulsion of a student, and includes a description of related state data collection. The report is available from the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE).
Overview of the Major Discipline Provisions in the 1999 IDEA Regulations
Robert Silverstein, J.D.
March 18, 1999, Revised May 7, 1999
www.fape.org/idea/what_idea_is/discipline_overview.htm
Concise outline of the discipline procedures from the Director of Center for the Study and Advancement of Disability Policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.