LEND Fact Sheet Series: Challenging Behaviors: Request for a Break

Author(s)
Joe E Reichle, Carol L Davis, Shelley Neilsen Gatti, Lillian K Duran

Description

A fact sheet defining a request for a break as a communicative intervention in which the child completes part of an activity and then requests a break; after the break, the child returns to the activity. The sheet also explains how to teach a request for a break and how to increase the child's participation time in a desired activity or task.

Details

Date
2012 
Type
Fact Sheet 
Publisher
Minnesota Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Program (MNLEND)

Topics

  • Education practices (K12 and transition)
    • Positive behavior support
  • Specific life stage
    • Children
  • Specific disability
    • Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)