Melmark Parent Training Series
We are excited to
offer you group parent training sessions on a variety of topics each week via
telehealth. Our goal is to provide practical information and tips for how you can
apply the skills in your home. Please see training topics below.
Behavior Management:
Preventing Behavior and Teaching Replacement Skills
Learn
strategies for reducing the likelihood of challenging behaviors and how to
identify what skills to teach that replace challenging behaviors.
Behavior Management: Making a Plan: Responding to Behavior
Learn strategies for responding to challenging
behavior. Learn how to develop a plan for responding to behavior.
Activities of Daily Living: Structuring Leisure Time
Learn strategies to help your child engage in
appropriate behaviors and enjoy leisure time.
Activities of Daily Living: Teaching Self-Care Skills
Learn strategies that will help you to identify
what self-care skills you can teach at home and how to do it.
Activities of Daily Living: Encouraging Good Eating and Sleeping
Habits
Learn how to set up routines that promote healthy
eating and sleeping habits. Problem solve common challenges in establishing
good eating and sleeping routines.
Instruction: Reinforcement and Prompting
Learn strategies that will help you to increase
skills in your child and further their independence.
Instruction: Tips for Distance Learning
Learn strategies for setting up a home learning
environment and routine that supports distance learning while also maintaining
your family’s well-being.
Visual Supports: Creating and Following Activity Schedules
Learn to develop and use activity schedules to
help support learning, skill development, and routines at home.
Visual Supports: Use of Visuals
Learn how visual supports can be used in a
variety of ways at home to support learning and manage behavior. A variety of
examples will be shown.
Communication Strategies
Learn effective communication strategies and how
to support your child’s communication at home.
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