How To Prevent Temper Tantrums During Haircuts│Shaping

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hi my name is Heather Nunziato and I'm a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with
Brett DiNovi & Associates autism is a spectrum disorder meaning that how it
affects each person is extremely different not one person is the same so
when going out with individuals with autism for community-based activities
such as going out to eat taking public transportation or getting a haircut they
can all go through different experiences they might process it in a completely
different way from one person to another and they all might experience different
types of sensory experiences anxiety or any other challenges that might be
different from one another so in this video I will briefly be going over the
process and the steps it takes to be getting a haircut out in the community
and finding the success with your client and working with the stylist in the
salon to have them understand what it takes to work with this type of
population is room these things and we've been working on
it slowly and now we're to a point now where this is probably the best he's
ever done he didn't take anything he didn't say anything and she's actually
not the stylist here before it was just as quick as we could to get an cuts it's
been such a wonderful positive experience because it just his hair is
just it's been such a challenging issue for us
the mother mentioned in the video that this was the first place that her son
was able to get a haircut from start to finish she explained how the staff at
the hair salon are extremely patient and they understand the process it takes to
work with an individual with autism and that they have to remain completely
patient and understand that each person is different so that they might react
differently sitting in the chair versus another individual so some tips you can
do when you want to take your son or daughter to get their hair cut could be
calling the salon in advance and asking them what is the a good time to come
when it's not very crowded so the individual may not be as distracted
there may not be other stuff going on if the place is empty or just not crowded
they might be able to focus a little bit more also asking if anyone works there
does have experience working with individuals with autism you definitely
want them to have that background and knowledge because they're gonna have to
know that it's a lot different than working with a typical typical
individual when you schedule your appointment you might want to ask if
there's a block of time that you can take out of the salon schedule some
stylists might stack their appointments one off one after another so if they
have extra time in their schedule they might want to block it out so that they
give the learner some extra time because you don't really know how the
appointment might be that and and then the next week you come in and
we finally get him into the chair and just sit and then the next we can come
in and I'd comb it with no cake and then he would come in the next week and be
put the cape on and Cole Matilda says there's a mini end and we've just really
come a long way and now I'm able to actually do a full hair cut from
beginning to end shaping is an ABA procedure that
involves differentially reinforcing successive approximations to reach a
terminal behavior and in this video the terminal behavior is getting a haircut
so the process of getting a haircut could be from walking into the salon and
waiting for your turn to sitting in the chair putting on the cape or the gown
that the stylist puts on you getting your hair combed getting your hair wet
and the stylists actually able to cut your hair and then style it and then you
leave that would be the process and those are the many responses that would
take to reach the terminal goal so individuals with autism may already have
those separate responses in their repertoire but they not may not be able
to shape that and keep that in a full sequence so it is our job as the BCBS or
the rvts to work on shaping that behavior into the actual getting a
haircut so after each successful step of the shaping process of getting the
haircut you want to reward the individual so if the first step was to
just look around in the waiting area that's what receives the reinforcement
the next session is and you go into the salon the individual will look around
and wait in the waiting area but that's not going to be the stuff that receives
reinforcement that's going to be put on extinction the next step would be to go
sit in the chair and then that would receive
reinforcement and that would continue up until he reaches the terminal behavior
and you would receive a lot of reinforcement for meaning that goal and
being able to sit in a quiet way and remain compliant throughout the whole
process other strategies to use while the person is actually getting their
hair cut could be to implement a token board in the video you see the mother
holding a token board for her son and they can receive tokens for remaining
compliant in the chair having their hands on their lap not swaying back and
forth so the person with scissors in their hand can actually do their job so
by introducing the tokens they would know that they would be earning whatever
toy or edible that they might really want and what motivates them so if
they're on a token economy of five and they get five already while sitting in
the chair and the stylist still has a way to go but the haircut still you
might want to talk to the stylist ahead of time and say is it okay if he gets a
little bit of a break between cuts if that's alright so because he does earn
this and you want to be able to follow through and then we can shape that by
having the person sit in their chair for longer and they would receive their
reinforcement at the end of the actual haircut
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How To Prevent Temper Tantrums During Haircuts│Shaping

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