When students engage in challenging behaviors it can be frustrating, confusing, and elicit other unwanted feelings. At times these feelings may interfere with our ability to look at the behaviors with clear eyes and ask: Why is this behavior happening? To answer this question and understand the behavior, one must consider a few fundamental concepts …
Serve Others As a special education teacher, you will have the opportunity to serve students with disabilities and their families an incredibly rewarding and humbling experience. Make a Difference One of the biggest rewards of being a teacher is the ability to make a difference every single day. As a special education teacher, you will …
Some of the things that make working with neurodiverse learners in Early Childhood so rewarding are the same things that feel both difficult and rewarding for some social workers. For me, specifically dealing with an outburst where a student may scream or cry is a behavior all new social workers or teachers learn on the …
Have you noticed challenging behaviors in a student? Do you want to change or replace those behaviors? Check out three tricks from ABA’s Discrete Trials Teaching. They work for our Little Dreamers and they should work for your students, too! Discrete Trials Teaching (DTT) After three months of working with a student during Discrete Trials …
It is natural for parents to be nervous while searching for the best programs for their children. At iCan Dream Center, we strive to alleviate that anxiety. Once students are enrolled in our Daydreamers After School Program, they instantly become part of our iCan Dream family. We care deeply about our students and their families, …
At the iCan Dream Center, we support students with different diagnoses, one of which is autism. We apply many interventions to aid us in increasing desired behaviors for our students. Registered Behavioral Therapists on our team have the tools to serve our students as effectively as possible, and one highly effective instrument in their toolkit …
To date, alternative schools have mainly served as settings where more restrictive conditions are enforced to compensate for dangerous or disruptive behavior. There are inherent risks associated with not responding to the overwhelming reality that disciplinary alternative school settings are further crippling our youth when we don’t respond to the data. The Risk in Alternative …
“Research shows technology-based instruction is reducing the time students reach a learning objective by 30 to 80 percent” (Haskins-Powell 2017). The above quote should surprise no one. iCan Dream Center is no stranger to technology as a method to differentiate instruction. We realize the power of technology as a tool to introduce and reinforce knowledge and skills …
iCan Dream Center (ICD) has many programs. We are an ISBE Approved Transition Program helping young adults with disabilities develop the skills to reach their full adult potential, a therapeutic after school program, a credit recovery program, an ABA counseling program and more. At the center of all of these is the concept of trust. …
