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Nov 2024

9m 14s

Teaching Appropriate Protests

Shira Karpel & Shayna Gaunt

About this episode

Functional communication and replacement language are important skills to work on with learners. Are you incorporating appropriate protests into these teachings? Here, we cover what appropriate protests are and some of the best ways to include this skill in our programs.

We discuss the reasons why teaching protests is so important and how to break down our teaching into multiple steps. We also talk about the different ways to teach appropriate protesting, recording triggers, and how to teach learners how to tolerate situations where “no” isn’t an option.

What’s Inside:

How to incorporate appropriate protests into teachings
Why it’s important to teach protests to our learners
Different approaches to teaching protests

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