WELCOME TO THE POPS SPEDSTER COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION PAGE

The Pops Spedster site is home to an instructional system designed to meet the academic and community-based instructional needs of students with intellectual/cognitive impairments.

DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE INSTRUCTION (DAI), is a system of instruction that involves probing a student's present level of educational performance.

The results of the probe can be used to design individualized education plans that meet IDEA requirements.

Some ELL students and home-schooled students could also benefit from the materials being offered on this site.

Pops Spedster And Company is an Oregon-based 501c3 non-profit, registered with the Oregon Secretary of State's office.

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  BEHAVIOR ISSUES

   

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CASE STUDIES

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DATA COLLECTION

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THE DAI ASSESSMENT/PROBE

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FUNCTIONAL LITERACY

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IEP PLANNING RESOURCES AND APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS

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JONNY CUE COMICS

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STEM AND IDEiA ISSUES

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Memorials

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Cognitive Behavior Supports

Many people with cognitive impairments can still exercise meta-cognitive skills by analyzing their own reasons for engaging in inappropriate behaviors. Certainly, the Special Education culture contains members who engage in the same dysfunctional behaviors as people who are not part of the SPED culture.

Here are some adaptive supports for teaching cognitive behavior modification. In this model, the student takes an active part in analyzing why certain behaviors do not work.

These visual supports are visual supports and based on a cognitive change program developed in the state of Oregon and designed as an evaluation system for prison inmates who volunteered for the Oregon SUMMIT Program. The system uses 10 abstract behaviorial characteristics. Each inmate was evaluated daily by several program staff members. A simple plus(+) and minus(-) system was used to record daily data about each inmate.

At the end of the week, each inmate was presented with the results of each behavior report. Advancement in the SUMMIT Program was determined by inmates' successful modification of negative, antisocial behaviors for which the inmate received a minus(-) on the evaluation sheet.

I have successfully used an adaptive version of this system in four adaptive life skills classrooms in the public school system. I found that each abstract behavioral concept could be presented in small group settings over the period of a school year. It did not take long for most students with developmentally determined varying abilities understood that it was better to receive ppluses than minuses.

The forms I used can be found below.

RIGHT CLICK ON EACH PAGE BELOW TO PRINTOUT THE EVALUATION FORMS AND WORKSHEETS FOR THE STUDENTS.

Here is a shorter version emphasizing five behaviors that be better understood by students in adaptive life skills classrooms.

Here is a student handout sheet showing each of the 10 desired behaviors.

Higher functioning students, particularly those placed in emotional growth classrooms, might benefit from discussing concepts such as incarceration. Often the SED population consists of teens who feel immune to the juvenile justice system and pose an attitude of invulnerablity to behavior modification techniques.

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Home of Jonny Cue Comics. -

Watch a Youtube video of an animated version of a Jonny Cue Comic.

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is also home of "Spout's First Note".

Watch an early, animated version of the book.

This video has gone through many different versions. It is based on a children's book written in 1999, for a graduate level class in Special Education, at Western Oregon University and taught by Dr. Mickey Pardew.

Many of the versions of this video are published on our YouTube channel

with the user name Pops Spedster And Company.

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Here is a link to a stop motion animated version's introduction video on You Tube - https://youtu.be/ugB8RB5kt8k

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Since 2008, Pops Spedster And Company has published content for the developmental disabilities community.

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Updated 04/27/2022

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