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Dr. Laura Riffel is the "Behavior Doctor". She has over 30 years of experience working with children in regular and special education Pre-K through high school. She also raised three successful children and she and her husband chose to live with an adult who happened to have autism, bi-polar condition, intellectual disabilities and obessive compulsive disorder. She shares insights about function behind behavior and gives tips on targeting the behavior and not the child.

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Tantrum trolls could also be called "No More Tantrums". What do you call them at your house: tantrums, meltdowns, Defcon 5, hooeys, fits, terrible two's? Whatever you call it, picture a child drunk on their emotion when they are... more
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Undermining Underdog could easily be called Stealth Students or Sneaky Kids. This session is abou those kids who undermine what's going on in the family or the classroom to get what they want. The best tool is discussed at the end and... more
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This broadcast is about the ever increasing violent behaviors we are seeing with younger and younger children. While there are no simple solutions, the answer is always to come up with a function based plan; meaning do a functional behavior... more
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This broadcast focuses on children who take things that are not theirs for the taking. We are not talking about simple things like "stealing a cookie" before dinner, but kids who steal candy bars from grocery stores or designer clothing... more
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Quibbling Quick Draw McGraw is based on a series of dolls that teach behavior using dolls from the past and present. Similar to the dolls that are used to teach teenagers that being a parent is difficult- these dolls help parents and teachers... more
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For those kids who "stick their head in the sand" instead of particpating in class. What do you do with the kids who "visit other planets", "avoid class altogether" or "hide inside their clothing"? This is just a short overview of some ideas on... more
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This broadcast focuses on a few organizational skills to teach to children and students to help them at home and at school. Space, time, and subject organization ideas will be shared.
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This broadcast focuses on students who we presume are lazy and it is geared towards testing. With all the high stakes testing about to occur across the country, many times when students don't do well on tests they are labeled lazy. There... more
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This show focuses on those children who have aggressive horseplay. Many times children are trying to emulate cartoon characters or movie characters. This horseplay turns into an aggressive encounter between two children because the... more
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This show is geared at reviewing the function behind jumping up and down tantrum behavior in children or students with autism. The show is based on one student from the clinic who had four hour tantrums and how the team eradicated... more
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