communication content for the workshop

1.Welcome and thank everyone for coming.
Hi, everyone. and welcome.
It is great to see everyone here today.

My name is Marie Zajac. I am a certified life coach.
I enjoy bringing out the very best in parents and children.
My background includes 25 years in the behavioral psychology health field
I have 7 years as an instructor at Judevine for the Autistic individual
6 years as a mental health technician at a hospital for children.
I specialize in positive reinforcement.

2. The topic for today's class is communication. We communicate on a regular basis.
Children are concrete thinkers. If you say to a child no. The child will automatically think that the event will not happen at all.
Saying yes as a qualifier. An example of this would be asying to a child yes you can do a task with a time, place and when is specified. Children do not like to hear the word no. Just the word no can upset a child ver much. A child however may be able to develop a sense of waiting until the actual event happens with anticipation. A temper tantrum may occur when the child hears the word no. When the child thinks that the event will happen but just not right now the child will be able to handle the situation much better.

Closed ended statements work well with children. For ex. At 8:30 it istime for bed. Instead of asking the child a question? Are you ready for bed it is 8:30 bed time. When a question is asked to a child about completing an expectation; the child then thinks that they have a choice in the matter. Closed ended statements are better.

reinforcement outline workshop

The following ideas will be in the reinforcement workshop:

1. Shaping; Compliment the child for all of the things that the child is doing good; catch the child being good.

2. differentially reinforcement; compliment the child for every step towards the desired actions of the child.

3. extinguish; ignore the actions of the child that are disruptive/undesired actions, but do not ignore the child.

4. Remember the actions of the child that you want to extinguish will increase before they are completlely eliminated.

5. fixed ratio reinforcemnt: reinforce the child on a fixed schedule every time a desired action occurs.

6. intermittent reinforcemnt; the childd will be given a reinforcemnt at varies times; that will be unexpected to the child.

7. continous reinforcement; reinforcing the child without a fixed or intermentent schedule; the child will be reinforced on a regular basis without pause.

8. have a list of reinforcing items for the child. Individualize the list.

9. identify which reinforcement system will work best for the child.

10. have a reinforcement chart; system for which the child can visibly see the progress for which the child is making.

11. identify the terms for which the child will be reinforced, how, what time frame, when, etc.

that is all for now;

Marie Zajac CPC

Parent and Youth Life Coach