Therapeutic Programming
The goals of The Providence Center School’s therapeutic programs are to understand the students’ behaviors and assist them in developing problem-solving skills that can be used to make healthy, safe behavior choices at school, at home and in the community.
Behavior Support Techniques
The classroom and clinical teams apply the following behavior support strategies:
- Verbal and physical cueing/redirection
- Positive reinforcement
- Instructional and curricular alterations
- Environmental restructuring
- Self-monitoring and control strategies
- Behavioral contracting
- Social skill development
- Limiting privileges or reinforcers
- Increasing supervision
- Directing students to take a time out
- Encouraging students to take self-breaks
- Various incentive programs
- Teaching and practicing coping strategies
Intensive Programming Plan
When students need additional support to help them achieve their behavioral goals, an Intensive Programming Plan is developed. The plan may include interventions specific to the unique needs of the student, such as schedule adjustments or having breakfast with a teacher, to ease the student into the school day.
Alternative Learning Environment
When students exhibit behaviors that may cause harm to themselves and/or others, an Alternative Learning Environment (ALE) is implemented. Such behaviors include physical aggression, threats to harm self or others, absence without leave or property destruction. School administrators, with input from the clinical and classroom staff, discuss the behavior problem to determine if ALE or other interventions should be implemented.