Re: question

From: Mary Louise Hemmeter
Email: ml.hemmeter@vanderbilt.edu
Date: May 23, 2006

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Hi Kelly:

Thanks for your kind comments about my presentation last week. That was a great audience to talk to!!

I am really excited to hear that you are trying to implement some things. Here are some resources that might be useful. Let me know if you need something different:

1. Go to www.challengingbehavior.org. There are several things on that website that might be helpful: a) a booklet on program wide implementation in Kansas, b) a set of materials called 'teaching tools..." (these first two things are right on the home page); c) if you click on PBS at the top of the page, it will take you to a case study of doing behavior support with a young child and his family. It will give you all the forms as well as instructions for how to do it. This website will also link you to an article we wrote in Young Children on the pyramid.

2. csefel.uiuc.edu - this website has lots of things like social stories, teaching tools, etc that might be helpful. Also there are a series of documents that are called What Works Briefs. These would be really good for the staff to read. There are 21 on different types of practices.

3. I really like three books. One is by Marilou Hyson on the emotional development of young children. The other is by Carolyn Webster Stratton on promoting social emotional competence. Finally, the third is by Barbara Kaiser on young children with challenging behavior. You should be able to find all of them on amazon.com. Let me know if you need more information.

Mary Louise