6 Ways to Change Task Presentation to Prevent Challenging Behavior: Antecedent Strategies

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If this series proves nothing else, it is that addressing and preventing challenging behavior is a complex, complicated, long job...and it is. But there are some things you can do that will prevent challenging behaviors just in the way you present tasks to students. These will work well if you have a student whose FBA showed that the behavior served to escape from demands from staff or parents. Essentially these are strategies that will lessen the student's negative response to task demands by making them easier, more interesting, and/or more palatable in some way so they are more likely to comply. And let's face it, increased compliance, and decreased challenging behavior is a win-win for you and the student. So, let's look at some strategies.

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