The mission of the Gramon Family of Schools is to provide learning opportunities that enable each student to develop his/her fullest potential.  We believe that we can accomplish this goal in a structured, positive, and caring environment.  On-going collaboration among all memebers of the student's team ensures that each child receives the attention and support to progress through his/her individualized educational program.

Applied Behavior Analysis

• Staff participate in professional development in the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
• How to incorporate ABA into all lessons and activities.
• ABA offers evidence-based strategies for teaching new skills.
• Replacing challenging behavior with more appropriate behavior. Staff individualize instructional strategies and behavior management techniques to meet the unique needs of each student.
• Staff emphasize the use of positive behavioral supports to reinforce desirable behavior throughout the school day.
• Natural Environment Teaching

ABA strategies include:

• • • Reinforcement
    • Antecedent strategies
    • Prompting
    • Discrete trial teaching
    • Incidental teaching
    • Task analysis
    • Functional communication training.

Additionally, each year, staff are trained in QBS Safety-Care, a program designed to prevent and manage challenging behaviors as well as teach functional, socially acceptable, replacement behaviors.

Behavior Intervention Plans

Individualized behavior intervention plans are developed on an as-needed basis.

• Meeting with family which includes review of the behavior and permission to collect data.
• Staff are trained on how to collect data on challenging behaviors.
• The behavior analyst then analyzes the behavior data to determine:
  • a possible function(s)
  • Strategies to replace challenging behaviors with more socially acceptable behavior.

Before becoming a part of the student's IEP, The Behavior intervention plans are reviewed with:

• The student’s parent(s)/guardian(s)
• The school team
• The District Case Manager