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Madison is a Romanian little girl who is 3 years and 11 months. Madison lives with her mother and father who adopted her when she was 2 years old. She has been going to a community preschool for about 5 weeks. Madison has developmental delays in the areas of speech and language, gross and fine motors skills, and cognition. She uses a few single words and she knows about 10 signs. She learned to walk about 8 months ago, but she has an awkward gait and is a bit unbalanced when she runs. She is in the process of being toilet-trained.
Madison’s parents report that Madison is very active and most often in movement. Her parentscommented that they are madly in love with their little girl, but that their dreams were somewhat shattered because they were expecting to adopt a child of typical development. They report that Madison likes pretty hair bows, ribbons, and clips and will try to pull them out of people’s hair, although she does not like to wear them in her own hair. They have a very diffi cult time in the community because often times Madison will resist moving by either pulling away from them or dropping to the ground. Madison will also try to wander off when they are in stores, restaurants, and other community places. When Madison wanders, she often will mouth objects within her reach. In the home, they need to keep the bathroom and bedroom doors closed so that she cannot get access to items in these rooms. Also for her safety, they have Madison sleep in a crib.
At preschool, Madison seems to have a very short attention span and will move from one activity to the next. She seems very interested in her peers, but doesn’t seem to know how to greet or interact with them. She is a very happy child. She is beginning to imitate her friends’ gross motor activities and loves to dance and listen to music. The school staff reports that Madison engages in challenging behaviors throughout the day. These behaviors include mouthing toys, pulling hair, resisting to move, and wandering around the classroom. Because Madison has several challenging behaviors, she needs one-on-one assistance or guidance during unstructured activities (playground and centers).
Name: Madison
Observer: Teacher
Date: 9/2
General Context: Arrival/Playground
Time: 9:00am
Trigger: Ashley arrives to school and enters the playground.
Challenging Behaviour: Madison runs over to her and smiles. Then she pulls the bow out of Ashley’s hair.
Maintaining Consequence: Ashley cries. The teacher comes and tells Madison ”no” and helps her give the bow back to Ashley.
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Name: Madison
Observer: Teacher
Date: 9/2
General Context: Story time
Time: 9:35am
Trigger: Class is sitting on a rug listening to the teacher read a story
Challenging Behaviour: Madison gets up and walks over to the table toys and begins playing.
Maintaining Consequence: After about 1 minute, the Assistant Teacher goes to her and holds her hand and tries to get her to come back to the group. Madison drops to the ground and the Assistant Teacher lets go of her hand and leaves her to play.
Possible Function:
Name: Madison
Observer: Teacher
Date: 9/15
General Context: Small Group
Time: 11:10am
Trigger: Teacher has just verbally directed all of the children to go to the tables for the small group art activity.
Challenging Behaviour: Madison walks in the opposite direction.
Maintaining Consequence: Once children are all seated, the teacher goes to redirect Madison to the tables. She resists and drops to the floor. Teacher gives up and lets Madison find another activity
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Name: Madison
Observer: Mother
Date: 9/4
General Context: Outside
Time: 2:30pm
Trigger: Madison slides down the slide. When she reaches the end of a slide a young girl approaches her.
Challenging Behaviour: Madison smiles at the girl, giggles, and pulls at the shiny clip in her hair.
Maintaining Consequence: The young girl cries and runs. The Assistant Teacher goes to Madison and reprimands her by telling her “No!” and then takes her to the swings and begins pushing Madison on the swing.
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Name: Madison
Observer: Father
Date: 9/6
General Context: Dinner time
Time: 6:30pm
Trigger: Madison is watching Telletubbies. Mom goes to Madison to help her to the table for dinner.
Challenging Behaviour: Madison pulls away then drops to the floor
Maintaining Consequence: Mom lets go, goes back to the dinner area to pour drinks. She then comes back over to Madison and begins counting down from 5 before turning off the TV
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Name: Madison
Observer: Father
Date: 9/6
General Context: Bedtime Story
Time: 9:00pm
Trigger: Madison and her mother walk into the bedroom to read a story. Mother tells Madison to pick a story off the shelf
Challenging Behaviour: Madison pulls away from her mother and drops to the floor.
Maintaining Consequence: Mother says, “Come on let’s get a book.” When Madison won’t get up, Mother lets go of her hand and gets a book for her.
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