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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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This is a 15 minute session talking about students who are up wandering around the room and interested in everyone's work except their own. These are typically students who have pretty good behavior otherwise, but are busy bodies into... more
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This segment is addressing behavioral interventions for those students who feign illness to either gain adult attention or escape work. This segment focuses on school behavior with ideas to tie parents into assisting with this issue.
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This is a short broadcast about working with those students who are class clowns and try to make a joke out of everything.
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This broadcast is geared toward those students and children who are either verbally aggressive or passive aggressive. While 30 minutes is not enough time to delve very deeply into this issue, this broadcast will give the listener some ideas... more
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If you are dealing with a student or child who has elopement issues at school or home, then this broadcast will give you some ideas for dealing with those issues. We have had quite a few requests for assistance with elopement. No... more
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This show will focus on how to deal with children and students who try to barter their way out of work. How do we handle this at home and at school? This show will focus on ways to steel ourselves up to mean what we say and say what... more
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This show focuses on how to determine why a child is cussing and what to do about it when they do. You can't just say "quit cussing". When it has become habit, we need to change the habit.
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This show will focus on how to deal with teenagers whose heads seem to spin. How do we deal with eye rolling, sucking teeth, sighing etc. Students figure out a way to let you know you are lower than the scum of a snail in their... more
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This show is focusing on those students who are ADHD or have ADHD tendencies. We are focusing on a series of 26 characters who show up classrooms. This show focuses on Behavioral and Academic interventions for... more
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Creating a quality life for an adult with autism is a daunting task. Using the skills we learned from living with Jay, our adult friend with autism, I will share with you some tips for creating an adult life filled with friends, meaningful work, and living... more
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