Throwback Thursday for Fire Safety Week

I am linking up with The Teacher's Desk 6 for her PURR-fect Previous Posts: Throwback Thursday linky. October has so many things going on from Bullying Prevention Month to Fire Safety Week (not to mention fall, pumpkins and Halloween). I've been thinking about fire safety week which reminded me of this post from April 2013 that many of you may not have seen. (By the way, did you know the best way to find posts on my blog is to use my Pinterest blog board? You can use the search box to the right too, but I actually find all the posts I'm looking for on my board. I think it's a visual thing!). Anyway, as you will see from this post I have some very strong feelings about fire drills and students with autism or other disabilities. They are hard for many of our students, but they are no less important for teaching. And at the end of the post are some resources and another throwback post with a link to a freebie for teaching about fire drills.
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5 Types and Functions of Visual Supports--Antecedent Interventions for Behavioral Support

In continuing the series 5 Steps to Meaningful Behavioral Support, we are on Step 4 of creating the behavior plan and choosing interventions. Remembering that our interventions must match our hypotheses, one of the first sets of strategies we use are often referred to as antecedent interventions because they address the antecedents to the challenging behavior based on your FBA. As you will remember (or click here to be reminded), one of the huge advantages of using a function-based approach to behavior support is that you can address behaviors before they happen to avoid them all together through prevention. So, today I'm going to talk about some of the more common antecedent strategies we might use.
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