1. Sensory Strategies within Behaviour Support Plans
By Lee Frances MApplSc(OT)

2. My background Sensory integration at Uni
Supported employment with behaviour plans and reward systems

3. Learning Objectives
Use Functional Analysis to help create a Behaviour Support Plan
Know when to use sensory strategies within a Behaviour Support Plan
Include sensory strategies within Behaviour Support Plans for prevention and intervention
Evaluate the sensory strategies and the behaviour

4. Behaviour Support Plans

5. Dept of Education and Dept of Human Services Plans

6. Behaviour – What is the Function?
What to do about it?
Obtain something
Avoid something
Gain attention
Sensory stimulation
Improve Communication
Provide more appropriate alternative
Increase Occupation – either meaningful or purely sensory?

7. Create Behaviour Support Plan
Target behaviour – include when it occurs
Triggers of the behaviour
Function of the behaviour – obtain, avoid, attention, sensory stimulation
Prevention strategies
Reward/positive reinforcement
Natural consequences/ignoring strategies
3 levels of incident response – yellow, orange, red
Evaluation

8. Sensory Strategies

9. When might sensory strategies help?
Sensory Processing disorders can be involved in the following:
Attention Deficit Disorder
Anxiety
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Developmental Coordination Disorder (Dyspraxia)
Dysgraphia
Non-verbal Learning Disorder
Gifted children
Sensory Processing Disorder

10. Frontal lobe = thinking Primitive brain = sensory

11. When do you use sensory strategies?
Prevention – providing sensory tools so that the person stays in a calm, alert state and their behaviour doesn’t escalate.
Intervention – providing sensory tools when the problem behaviour occurs

12. Sensory Strategies as Prevention
Hokki stool
Reduce distractions in the room
Reduce fluorescent light
Reduce noise
Provide regular movement breaks and opportunities for breathing and centering
Having a Sensory Activity Schedule

13. Sensory strategies as intervention for obtaining behaviours
Provide sensory tools as a replacement option
Eg. Visual computer screen for 5 mins to help calm when actually wants a game
Eg. blow a balloon when want something to eat
Provide sensory tools to help calm so can communicate appropriately
Eg. blowing tools or a
a movement break

14. Sensory strategies as intervention for avoiding behaviours
Provide deep pressure alternatives eg. push against wall instead of people
Bounce on trampoline or ball instead of throwing furniture
Provide earmuffs
Provide sensory tools to help calm so can communicate appropriately
Eg. blowing tools, weighted lap-sack or a
a movement break

15. Sensory strategies as intervention for attention-seeking behaviours
Provide sensory tools as a replacement option
Eg. pet to provide attention
Eg. robot to provide attention
Eg. develop movement skills so get appropriate positive attention eg. dancing or gymnastics
Provide sensory tools to help calm so can communicate appropriately
Eg. blowing tools or a
a movement break

16. Sensory strategies as intervention for sensory stimulation behaviours
Provide appropriate sensory tools as a replacement option
Eg. chewing gum instead of chewing pencil
Eg. fiddle toy instead of move at mat-time
Use Archie’s School Tools book to introduce to class
Provide sensory tools to help calm so can communicate needs/wants appropriately
Eg. blowing tools or a
a movement break

17. Sensory Activity Schedule
Make it easy to implement
Make it things the child wants to do
Make it whole class activities
Aim for 10 minutes every 2 hours
Explain what the aim is
Provide unsupervised choices
Provide a chill-out or hide-out zone

18. Evaluation of prevention and intervention
Choose 2 sensory behaviours and 2 behaviours to measure:
rate behaviours out of 10
length of time of the expected behaviour
number of times the expected behaviour occurs
Goal Attainment Scale – comparison of performance at review with initial performance
0=achievement of goal, -1=heading towards goal,
-2=no change from initial performance, 1=exceeded goal, 2=more than exceeded

19. Learning Objectives
Use Functional Analysis to help create a Behaviour Support Plan
Know when to use sensory strategies within a Behaviour Support Plan
Include sensory strategies within Behaviour Support Plans for prevention and intervention
Evaluate the sensory strategies