PURPOSE AND GOALS
Our goal is to develop important life and coping skills, reduce and/or eliminate challenging behaviors, install positive replacement behaviors and teach skills necessary to assist persons with disabilities to live a life as close as possible, to those at their non-disabled peers. The program will provide life choices, individualized training in positive behavior support. Client driven services will be based on normalization principles and appropriate teaching practices. HRDS understand the regional center system as it applies to client and family. HRDS staff will maintain constant communication with parents and regional center counselor to ensure the success of the client in the program.
PROGRAM PHILOSOPHY
At HRDS, one of our goals is to provide the best quality service to our clients that will result in the achievement of individual goals. It is also our goal to assist clients to maximize their potential while decreasing the frequency and severity of interfering behaviors until eliminating the said behaviors teaching patterns that are more adaptive.
The overall philosophy will be to empower our clients to make individual choices, feel respected, and have a sense of dignity as well as have their needs met on an individualized basis. The underlying philosophy of this program is as follows:
- Behavior is communicative and goal directed
- Settings and environments are capable of meeting the clients’ needs before behavioral interventions are used
- Our goal is to educate and teach effective interpersonal skills, not to manage or suppress behavior
- Interventions focus on teaching appropriate behavior to replace maladaptive behavior
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