Social/Emotional/Behavioural
Assert - This strategy was developed to teach self-advocacy skills to individuals with disabilities. The goal is to encourage students to develop a sense of self that includes their strengths and weaknesses as well as teaching them to speak on their own behalf to gain access to reasonable accommodations and compensations. Click here to download Word document
Behavioural Contracting - Behavioural contracting, also called contingency contracts, are used to control behaviour and increase accountability of the client (or the student), and they have also been used to strengthen relationships between teachers and students, teachers and parents, and parents and children. Click here to download Word document
ChoiceMaker - Click here to download Word document
Circle of Friends - Click here to download Word document
Classwide Peer Tutoring - This program is an instructional strategy that was designed to improve academic performance of students in grade 1 to 6 in basic skill subjects by increasing academic engaged time. It is an effective teaching method for most general education students. Specific benefits have been shown for children with learning disabilities and children with ADHD. Click here to download Word document
Connecting With Others: Lessons for Teaching Social and Emotional Competence - The objective of this program is to help children in grades Kindergarten through 12 develop emotionally and socially by teaching systematic social skills within the school system. Click here to download Word document
Co-operative Learning - A grouping strategy for students at all levels that fosters a collaborative rather than a competitive or individualistic environment. Group learning builds on student's strengths. It allows for social interaction while developing problem solving and consultation skills. Click here to download Word document
Dina Dinosaur Program - An intervention for children in JK to Grade 3, that was developed to prevent, reduce, and treat conduct problems in young children, as well as increase social competence. Specifically, the DDP teaches social skills, emotional literacy, appropriate conflict management, and positive school behaviours. Click here to download Word document
Dr. Mel Levine's Books: Keeping A Head In School & All Kinds of Minds - These books were created to help children with learning disabilities, in grades Kindergarten through 12, develop a sense of self-efficacy. They were written to help children gain insight into their strengths and weaknesses, as well as clarify the problems that they come across in school. Finally, they are designed to engender a realistic sense of ambition in these children. Click here to download Word Document
Errorless Compliance Training - This intervention utilizes stimulus fading techniques to obtain child compliance with parental or teacher requests. It is appropriate for children in pre-school through grade 4 as well as older developmentally challenged children. Click here to download Word document.
Incredible Years - A program designed to help parents of children with behavioural problems, from pre-school age to 6 years of age. The program is based on a social learning model, which emphasizes the significance of the interactions between a parent and child. The IYP program teaches parents how to optimally handle their children's misbehaviour, and how to model effective problem solving. Click here to download Word document
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Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) - Click here to download Word document
Peer Tutoring - A grouping strategy that involves pairing students. Paired students assist one another in paired teaching/learning situations which could range from quizzing math facts with a classmate to listening to younger students read. Click here to download Word document
Roots of Empathy - A program for elementary and middle school students, which can be used at classroom or school-wide level, to increase empathy and lead to more respectful and caring relationships, to decrease levels of bullying and aggression, to promote social inclusion and consensus building, and to increase emotional literacy. Click here to download Word document
Second Step - A curriculum for elementary and middle school students designed to teach social and emotional skills for violence prevention through the development of empathy, impulse control, and anger management skills. Click here to download Word document
Self-Management Intervention for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - This intervention is a school-based system designed to address the impairment in delayed responding typical of students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in grade 3 to 12, and the associated behavioural difficulties evidenced in the classroom setting. Click here to download Word document
Self-Management Program - This intervention is an alternative to traditional classroom systems of behaviour management. It is a cognitively-based program that teaches students to change and manage their own behaviour. Click here to download Word document
Skillstreaming in Early Childhood, the Elementary School Child, the Adolescent: Teaching Prosocial Skills - This program is designed to teach specific prosocial skills, in a developmentally appropriate manner, to children at three age levels. Click here to download Word document
Social Interaction Intervention - This intervention was designed to teach social skills to young children (pre-school, junior and senior kindergarten) who are either identified as learning disabled or considered to be "at risk". The idea is to actively promote the integration of children in inclusive classroom settings. Click here to download Word document
The Social Autopsy Approach - This approach is a problem-solving intervention aimed at the examination and inspection of a social error. The purpose is to teach students to understand social cues and social interactions. Click here to download Word document
Social Stories - A strategy which involves children writing desired social outcomes and behaviours in the form of a story, and can be used to teach routines and transitions, academic expectations, and to address social behaviours, fears, obsessions and compulsions. Click here to download Word document
S.S.GRIN (Social Skills Group Intervention Steps To Self Determination (STEPS) - Click here to download Word document
Token Economy - A token economy is used as a behaviour change program and reinforcement procedure for increasing, teaching, reducing and maintaining behaviour while at the same time reinforcing desired behaviours through the use of tokens which can then be exchanged for back-up or highly motivating reinforcers. Click here to download Word Document
Video Self Monitoring - Video self-modeling is a procedure that involves observing oneself on videotape engaging in an adaptive behaviour. This type of intervention can be utilized to increase behaviour and academic skills to students with disabilities. Click here to download Word document
Work Completion Checklist - This is a program for systematically encouraging and providing reinforcement to children for completion of work in school. It is appropriate for children in grades 1 to 6. Click here to download Word document