Ten Videotapes contain what you need to know about Habilitation principles to help individuals with disabilities live independently.

1. Orientation to Developmental Disabilities
   Provides a frame of reference for understanding active treatment and habilitation services. Covers history of treatment, current teaching practices, and the pitfalls of thinking negatively about the potential of people with disabilities (self-fulfilling prophecy).
2. The Active Treatment Process
   Provides a complete description of the habilitation process, including assessment, program planning, implementation and review.
3. Teamwork
   Assists staff to understand and contribute to a healthy team process by covering teamwork, functional versus dysfunctional teams, and group participation skills.
4. Maintaining a Humane Environment
   Provides staff with a basis for making day-to-day decisions using the principles of reasonable accommodation, normalization, protection from harm, and least restrictive alternative.
5. Assuring Individual Rights
   Discusses the rights to grow and develop, suceed as well as fail, participate, struggle and persevere for a quality of life, privacy, developing confidential relationships, being in harmony with your culture, being treated in good faith, and being yourself.
6. Reinforcement
   Teaches the effective use of reinforcement. Includes examples of reinforcement, types of schedules, types of reinforcers, finding effective reinforcers, and the misuse of reinforcement.
7. Prompt-Reinforce Sequence
   Extends the application of reinforcement by presenting a teaching strategyto use in hundreds of planned and unplanned teaching opportunities each day. Includes gaining a person's attention, prompting, and simplifying instructions.
8. Group Teaching Techniques
   Prepares staff to conduct effective group teaching. Includes how to group people, selecting teaching techniques, arrange seating, arrange materials, and involve individuals.
9. Dealing with Inappropriate Behavior
   Helps staff to learn to diagnose the intention of inappropriate behavior and to understand the rationale of positive programming.
10. Crisis Management
    Helps staff to manage themselves in a crisis and assist others to regain self-control. Includes learning to manage stress in a crisis and alternatives to defuse a crisis situation.

 Plus...

• Staff Training Manual
  Includes supplemental reading material and verbal competency tests.
• Instructor's Guide
  Assists you in the effective use of the curriculum including test materials to assess performance.