Outbursts, Oppositional Defiance and Frustration in the Classroom: Self-Regulation Techniques to Reduce the Frequency, Severity and Duration of Problematic Behavior

This seminar will help you to better intervene with the challenging student— the one who won’t sit still; doesn’t follow directions; often throws tantrums; or has difficulty waiting for their turn. They may “hit first and ask questions later”.

They react impulsively and have difficulty expressing what they need or what is frustrating them. This child is intelligent, caring and kind, but their challenging behavior is overwhelming, confusing and frustrating. They struggle to meet basic expectations and are unable to succeed in school, with peers and at home.

Join child clinical psychologist Dr. Ehlert and learn to effectively intervene with the emotional and behavioral dysregulation of children with High-Functioning Autism, ADHD, learning disabilities and sensory processing disorders.

In 3 short live sessions totaling 6 hours and 15 minutes, Dr. Ehlert will teach you hands-on activities, exercises, and techniques you can use whether you are teaching in a classroom or virtually. Her go-to interventions will help you:

• Address the sensory, language and executive functioning processing deficits that trigger students
• Improve problem-solving skills and self-regulation skills
• Increase student’s self-control, social success, emotional control and task completion
• Teach flexibility, tolerance, thinking it through and decision-making
• Reduce the frequency and duration of student’s tantrums and emotional outbursts

Walk away with proven emotional, behavioral and processing strategies that lead to social and academic success!

*Please note: This live program is 6 hours and 15 minutes in total. It will be presented across three dates to provide easily consumable, 2+ hour sessions. Attendance is mandatory on all three dates to receive credit.  Partial credit is not available for this program.

Full Course Description

Part 1: Outbursts, Oppositional Defiance and Frustration in the Classroom: Self-Regulation Techniques to Reduce the Frequency, Severity and Duration of Problematic Behavior

This seminar will help you to better intervene with the challenging student— the one who won’t sit still; doesn’t follow directions; often throws tantrums; or has difficulty waiting for their turn. They may “hit first and ask questions later”.

They react impulsively and have difficulty expressing what they need or what is frustrating them. This child is intelligent, caring and kind, but their challenging behavior is overwhelming, confusing and frustrating. They struggle to meet basic expectations and are unable to succeed in school, with peers and at home.

Join child clinical psychologist Dr. Ehlert and learn to effectively intervene with the emotional and behavioral dysregulation of children with High-Functioning Autism, ADHD, learning disabilities and sensory processing disorders.

In 3 short live sessions totaling 6 hours and 15 minutes, Dr. Ehlert will teach you hands-on activities, exercises, and techniques you can use whether you are teaching in a classroom or virtually. Her go-to interventions will help you:

• Address the sensory, language and executive functioning processing deficits that trigger students
• Improve problem-solving skills and self-regulation skills
• Increase student’s self-control, social success, emotional control and task completion
• Teach flexibility, tolerance, thinking it through and decision-making
• Reduce the frequency and duration of student’s tantrums and emotional outbursts

Walk away with proven emotional, behavioral and processing strategies that lead to social and academic success!

*Please note: This live program is 6 hours and 15 minutes in total. It will be presented across three dates to provide easily consumable, 2+ hour sessions. To receive full credit, attendance is mandatory on all three dates.

Program Information

Objectives

1. Communicate how sensory, language, and executive skills impairments create fight/flight/freeze and defensive responses that lead to children’s dysregulation and related behavioral issues in the classroom.
2. Determine the appropriate intervention strategies to improve student skills including self-control, social success, emotional regulation and task completion.
3. Employ behavior modification techniques and problem-solving strategies to diffuse student’s escalated and oppositional behavior.
4. Implement environmental strategies to accommodate children’s processing deficits and emotional regulation needs.
5. Utilize problem-solving strategies to develop appropriate behavioral expectations and coping mechanisms for improved self-regulation skills in students.
6. Apply cognitive restructuring strategies to reduce frequency, severity and duration of children’s behavioral and emotional outbursts.

Outline

Perspective-Taking and Meaning to Improve Student Behavior

The intersection of sensory, cognitive, affect and motor systems

• The “Set-up”: Student’s expectation + delayed development = failure
• Develop appropriate expectations: Pitfalls and strengths of developmental models
• Strategies for triggering triggers: Reinforcing desired behavior
• De-escalation strategies and precursors to problem-solving

Sensory Deficits

Interdependence between sensory processing and perception

• Strategies to reduce sensory triggers
• Desensitize strategies to reset the “panic switch”
• Manage the environment to reduce sensory overload
• Experience your own dysregulation to sensory challenges

Language/Learning Deficits

Incorporate language processing into our understanding of behavior

• Your emotional response to their language challenges
• Recognize, validate, and problem-solve common language deficit triggers
• Social Pragmatics insight into poor social behavior
• Suggestions for accommodations and modifications for the classroom

Executive Functioning Deficits

Effective supports to overcoming EF roadblocks

• Problem-solving strategies to improve organization, working memory, and meta-cognitive deficits
• Fidget-friendly environments for restless, inattentive students
• Environments that encourage social-emotional regulation
• Experience how we might set kids up to fail without realizing it

Behavioral Strategies

Empower students to make positive choices and take responsibility for their behavior

• Create realistic expectations through better understanding of the child’s process
• Successful “resetting” through behavior modification and skills coaching
• Environmental structures and nurturing words that regulate
• Reduce tantrums and emotional dysregulation through cognitive restructuring

Problem-Solving Strategies

Teach and encourage flexibility, tolerance, and decision-making skills

• End power struggles and the blame game
• Improve child’s acceptance and personal responsibility for behavior
• Create realistic expectations
• Self-talk scripts to help students regulate and problem-solve

Brain Training

Increase task completion, social success and emotional control

• Music and rhythm
• Cerebellum Stimulation Training
• Brain Gym®
• Yoga & mindfulness
• Neurotherapy models
• Limitations of research and potential risks

• Diet/food sensitivities and needs
• Supplements/vitamins
• Sensitivities/toxins
• Movement and exercise to regulate the brain

Part 2: Outbursts, Oppositional Defiance and Frustration in the Classroom: Self-Regulation Techniques to Reduce the Frequency, Severity and Duration of Problematic Behavior

This seminar will help you to better intervene with the challenging student— the one who won’t sit still; doesn’t follow directions; often throws tantrums; or has difficulty waiting for their turn. They may “hit first and ask questions later”.

They react impulsively and have difficulty expressing what they need or what is frustrating them. This child is intelligent, caring and kind, but their challenging behavior is overwhelming, confusing and frustrating. They struggle to meet basic expectations and are unable to succeed in school, with peers and at home.

Join child clinical psychologist Dr. Ehlert and learn to effectively intervene with the emotional and behavioral dysregulation of children with High-Functioning Autism, ADHD, learning disabilities and sensory processing disorders.

In 3 short live sessions totaling 6 hours and 15 minutes, Dr. Ehlert will teach you hands-on activities, exercises, and techniques you can use whether you are teaching in a classroom or virtually. Her go-to interventions will help you:

• Address the sensory, language and executive functioning processing deficits that trigger students
• Improve problem-solving skills and self-regulation skills
• Increase student’s self-control, social success, emotional control and task completion
• Teach flexibility, tolerance, thinking it through and decision-making
• Reduce the frequency and duration of student’s tantrums and emotional outbursts

Walk away with proven emotional, behavioral and processing strategies that lead to social and academic success!

*Please note: This live program is 6 hours and 15 minutes in total. It will be presented across three dates to provide easily consumable, 2+ hour sessions. To receive full credit, attendance is mandatory on all three dates.

Program Information

Objectives

1. Communicate how sensory, language, and executive skills impairments create fight/flight/freeze and defensive responses that lead to children’s dysregulation and related behavioral issues in the classroom.
2. Determine the appropriate intervention strategies to improve student skills including self-control, social success, emotional regulation and task completion.
3. Employ behavior modification techniques and problem-solving strategies to diffuse student’s escalated and oppositional behavior.
4. Implement environmental strategies to accommodate children’s processing deficits and emotional regulation needs.
5. Utilize problem-solving strategies to develop appropriate behavioral expectations and coping mechanisms for improved self-regulation skills in students.
6. Apply cognitive restructuring strategies to reduce frequency, severity and duration of children’s behavioral and emotional outbursts.

Outline

Perspective-Taking and Meaning to Improve Student Behavior

The intersection of sensory, cognitive, affect and motor systems

• The “Set-up”: Student’s expectation + delayed development = failure
• Develop appropriate expectations: Pitfalls and strengths of developmental models
• Strategies for triggering triggers: Reinforcing desired behavior
• De-escalation strategies and precursors to problem-solving

Sensory Deficits

Interdependence between sensory processing and perception

• Strategies to reduce sensory triggers
• Desensitize strategies to reset the “panic switch”
• Manage the environment to reduce sensory overload
• Experience your own dysregulation to sensory challenges

Language/Learning Deficits

Incorporate language processing into our understanding of behavior

• Your emotional response to their language challenges
• Recognize, validate, and problem-solve common language deficit triggers
• Social Pragmatics insight into poor social behavior
• Suggestions for accommodations and modifications for the classroom

Executive Functioning Deficits

Effective supports to overcoming EF roadblocks

• Problem-solving strategies to improve organization, working memory, and meta-cognitive deficits
• Fidget-friendly environments for restless, inattentive students
• Environments that encourage social-emotional regulation
• Experience how we might set kids up to fail without realizing it

Behavioral Strategies

Empower students to make positive choices and take responsibility for their behavior

• Create realistic expectations through better understanding of the child’s process
• Successful “resetting” through behavior modification and skills coaching
• Environmental structures and nurturing words that regulate
• Reduce tantrums and emotional dysregulation through cognitive restructuring

Problem-Solving Strategies

Teach and encourage flexibility, tolerance, and decision-making skills

• End power struggles and the blame game
• Improve child’s acceptance and personal responsibility for behavior
• Create realistic expectations
• Self-talk scripts to help students regulate and problem-solve

Brain Training

Increase task completion, social success and emotional control

• Music and rhythm
• Cerebellum Stimulation Training
• Brain Gym®
• Yoga & mindfulness
• Neurotherapy models
• Limitations of research and potential risks

• Diet/food sensitivities and needs
• Supplements/vitamins
• Sensitivities/toxins
• Movement and exercise to regulate the brain

Part 3: Outbursts, Oppositional Defiance and Frustration in the Classroom: Self-Regulation Techniques to Reduce the Frequency, Severity and Duration of Problematic Behavior

This seminar will help you to better intervene with the challenging student— the one who won’t sit still; doesn’t follow directions; often throws tantrums; or has difficulty waiting for their turn. They may “hit first and ask questions later”.

They react impulsively and have difficulty expressing what they need or what is frustrating them. This child is intelligent, caring and kind, but their challenging behavior is overwhelming, confusing and frustrating. They struggle to meet basic expectations and are unable to succeed in school, with peers and at home.

Join child clinical psychologist Dr. Ehlert and learn to effectively intervene with the emotional and behavioral dysregulation of children with High-Functioning Autism, ADHD, learning disabilities and sensory processing disorders.

In 3 short live sessions totaling 6 hours and 15 minutes, Dr. Ehlert will teach you hands-on activities, exercises, and techniques you can use whether you are teaching in a classroom or virtually. Her go-to interventions will help you:

• Address the sensory, language and executive functioning processing deficits that trigger students
• Improve problem-solving skills and self-regulation skills
• Increase student’s self-control, social success, emotional control and task completion
• Teach flexibility, tolerance, thinking it through and decision-making
• Reduce the frequency and duration of student’s tantrums and emotional outbursts

Walk away with proven emotional, behavioral and processing strategies that lead to social and academic success!

*Please note: This live program is 6 hours and 15 minutes in total. It will be presented across three dates to provide easily consumable, 2+ hour sessions. To receive full credit, attendance is mandatory on all three dates.

Program Information

Objectives

1. Communicate how sensory, language, and executive skills impairments create fight/flight/freeze and defensive responses that lead to children’s dysregulation and related behavioral issues in the classroom.
2. Determine the appropriate intervention strategies to improve student skills including self-control, social success, emotional regulation and task completion.
3. Employ behavior modification techniques and problem-solving strategies to diffuse student’s escalated and oppositional behavior.
4. Implement environmental strategies to accommodate children’s processing deficits and emotional regulation needs.
5. Utilize problem-solving strategies to develop appropriate behavioral expectations and coping mechanisms for improved self-regulation skills in students.
6. Apply cognitive restructuring strategies to reduce frequency, severity and duration of children’s behavioral and emotional outbursts.

Outline

Perspective-Taking and Meaning to Improve Student Behavior

The intersection of sensory, cognitive, affect and motor systems

• The “Set-up”: Student’s expectation + delayed development = failure
• Develop appropriate expectations: Pitfalls and strengths of developmental models
• Strategies for triggering triggers: Reinforcing desired behavior
• De-escalation strategies and precursors to problem-solving

Sensory Deficits

Interdependence between sensory processing and perception

• Strategies to reduce sensory triggers
• Desensitize strategies to reset the “panic switch”
• Manage the environment to reduce sensory overload
• Experience your own dysregulation to sensory challenges

Language/Learning Deficits

Incorporate language processing into our understanding of behavior

• Your emotional response to their language challenges
• Recognize, validate, and problem-solve common language deficit triggers
• Social Pragmatics insight into poor social behavior
• Suggestions for accommodations and modifications for the classroom

Executive Functioning Deficits

Effective supports to overcoming EF roadblocks

• Problem-solving strategies to improve organization, working memory, and meta-cognitive deficits
• Fidget-friendly environments for restless, inattentive students
• Environments that encourage social-emotional regulation
• Experience how we might set kids up to fail without realizing it

Behavioral Strategies

Empower students to make positive choices and take responsibility for their behavior

• Create realistic expectations through better understanding of the child’s process
• Successful “resetting” through behavior modification and skills coaching
• Environmental structures and nurturing words that regulate
• Reduce tantrums and emotional dysregulation through cognitive restructuring

Problem-Solving Strategies

Teach and encourage flexibility, tolerance, and decision-making skills

• End power struggles and the blame game
• Improve child’s acceptance and personal responsibility for behavior
• Create realistic expectations
• Self-talk scripts to help students regulate and problem-solve

Brain Training

Increase task completion, social success and emotional control

• Music and rhythm
• Cerebellum Stimulation Training
• Brain Gym®
• Yoga & mindfulness
• Neurotherapy models
• Limitations of research and potential risks

• Diet/food sensitivities and needs
• Supplements/vitamins
• Sensitivities/toxins
• Movement and exercise to regulate the brain