Ellie is a 9 ½ year-old girl with severe learning disabilities, including difficulties in comprehending complex and abstract language.

Ellie is a 9 ½ year-old girl with severe learning disabilities, including difficulties in comprehending complex and abstract language.  She also struggles with motor planning and sequencing and is sensory over-reactive.  She has frequent meltdowns which have been exacerbated by her early transition into preadolescence.  Identify which strategies would be most effective in working with Ellie to reduce her meltdowns.

Study Questions

  1. What is the Greenspan/DIR model?
    1. An intervention that follows a chronological order to teach skills.
    2. Something you do to mitigate affective experiences available to children.
    3. Teaching a behavior to address a specific symptom a child displays.
    4. A model used to identify a child’s social-emotional strengths and weaknesses.
  2. Which is NOT a part of the Greenspan approach?
    1. Relating within meaningful, positive relationships
    2. Communication across all therapeutic curriculums
    3. Teaching a child an outcome, what to say, and what to do
    4. Encouraging a child to do the thinking
  3. The Greenspan approach is a parent-_____ approach and a therapist-____ approach.
    1. supported; centered
    2. centered; supported
    3. supported; directed
    4. advocated; centered