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Danny is a 22-month old boy that lives with his mother, father, and 12-month old sister. He is a new child at a community childcare program where he attends childcare 5 mornings a week. Danny is language delayed and does not use words. He does repeat consonant-vowel combinations and will occasionally repeat simple words, often repeating the initial sound over and over with a whiney frustrated sounding voice. Danny has very limited play skills and is likely to manipulate toys by repetitive actions of spinning moving parts or mouthing them.
Danny’s parents report that he is very difficult to manage at home and in the community. They describe that Danny as being “very rigid” about what he wants to do and diffi cult to redirect. When pushed to comply, he often becomes aggressive and hits his parents or throws toys and tries running away. During meals he never sits with his parents to eat. He will come to the table periodically, pick up food from his plate and walk off to eat it. His mother also shared that she is very concerned about how he plays because he doesn’t seem to use toys correctly. He likes spinning in circles with toys and twirling spinning toy parts. His parents are reluctant to take him to the store or other places in the community because he has severe tantrums, resists getting in the car, and/or resists leaving places.
Danny’s childcare teacher visited him at home to welcome him to his new childcare. She was distressed to observe that Danny seems to be “in charge.” His parents are reluctant to place limits on him. He insists on watching videos repetitively, while rewinding favorite sequences over and over, or running up and down their hallway.
At his childcare, Danny has tantrums that include crying, screaming, dropping to the fl oor, and hitting at adults. Danny refuses to eat and will tantrum if guided to the table. He is most likely to have challenging behavior during small group activities (like story time, puppet play, and music time), clean-up time, and when transitioning from activities.
Name: Danny
Observer: Teacher
Date: 1/15
General Context: Playground
Time: 12:30pm
Trigger: Danny’s mom comes to the playground to pick him up. Danny is happy to see her and gives her a hug. She says, “Let’s get in the car.”
Challenging Behaviour: Danny drops to the ground and begins screaming. He kicks his mother when she approaches.
Maintaining Consequence: His mother goes to sit on the bench until he is calmer. Then she asks the teacher to carry him to the car.
Possible Function:
Name: Danny
Observer: Teacher
Date: 9/15
General Context: Story time with puppet
Time: 9:00am
Trigger: The children come to the rug for story time. An adult cues Danny to join the group by going over to him and pointing to the story area.
Challenging Behaviour: Danny backs away and swings his arms at the adult in an attempt to push the adult away
Maintaining Consequence: The adult gives him squishy balls at a table and then leaves him to play as she joins story time.
Possible Function:
Name: Danny
Observer: Teacher
Date: 9/15
General Context: Centers/Snack
Time: 9:15am
Trigger: The teacher asks Danny to come eat snack while holding a cracker.
Challenging Behaviour: Danny comes to the table takes 2 crackers and walks around the room while eating.
Maintaining Consequence: The teacher leaves him alone and sits with other children at the snack table.
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Name: Danny
Observer: Mother
Date: 9/16
General Context: Playing on Swing
Time: 4:15pm
Trigger: Grandmother comes to pick him up to visit at her house. Danny giggles when he sees her. She says, “Come on Danny, let’s go get your suitcase,” while reaching for his hand.
Challenging Behaviour: Danny drops to the ground and screams and hits at his grandmother.
Maintaining Consequence: His grandmother turns to talk to his mother until he calms and then his mother carries him inside to get the suitcase.
Possible Function:
Name: Danny
Observer: Mother
Date: 9/17
General Context: Dinner time
Time: 6:00pm
Trigger: Danny is watching videos. His mother asks him, “Are you ready for dinner?
Challenging Behaviour: Danny whines and kicks at his mother. He pulls away then goes to the food, takes 2 french fries and goes back to watch television.
Maintaining Consequence: Danny’s mother sits and joins him in watching the video.
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Name: Danny
Observer: Mother
Date: 9/17
General Context: Diaper changing
Time: 10:30am
Trigger: Dad goes to Danny who is spinning toy car wheels and says, “let’s go change your diaper” while taking his hand.
Challenging Behaviour: Danny screams, drops to the fl oor, throws car and hits at his dad.
Maintaining Consequence: His dad tries to pick Danny up and he rolls away and grabs car and runs away screaming.
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