Help - I need a behaviour chart - do you have any resources?

[HairyMaclary]

After 2 horrendous days where I have been in tears of frustration at DS1's behaviour I need to set up a visual timetable and reward system for him. Does anyone have any links or previous charts / systems that I could look at.

DS1 (3.11) has moderate cerebral palsy but extremely good comprehension. His speech is good although hesitant. His main problem is being very non compliant in everything to do with me and most adult directed tasks. I have some good ideas from his fantastic SALT who I collapsed in tears on today but I need some practical starters, how do physically set it up, what works well and what doesn't. I have camera, printer and laminator and assume I will need all three!

If you can help at all I would be very grateful as I am starting to sink under all the issues - it didn't help that we had his first wheelchair service appointment today, I really didn't want to get to this stage and I know he needs one but urgh...

I think I mentioned these a few months ago - The Victoria Chart Company. Really nice charts, with some specialising in SEN. I am not on commission, Hairy, honestly!!

Is this the kind of thing you mean?

No experience myself, but DS asleep so I've been googling and found this site
I'm sure you can get all blue peter-y and steal copy get inspiration from some of their ideas!

Thank you, I will look at those, I suspect I am going to need to make my own though as each day has it's separate flashpoints and I think I need to tailor the chart to each day or activity and each flashpoint.

Sorry Hairy, whe I reread your post I realsied you were asking about ones to make yourself, sorry.

Hope wheelchair appt went well. We need to go back to the people at Merton and Sutton, probably following a hospital referral. Luckily dd1's physio is wonderful and a true fighter!

We had one last year that worked well for ds. It had two lists: things he shouldn't do (kicking, screaming) and things he should do (memory a bit hazy but along the lines of playing with friend). At the bottom it had a 'working for box' where he could velcro a picture of something he was working for. Then there was a strip where he could stick on smileys earned for something good and when he got a smiley (or 3 smileys in the end) he got what he was working for. It worked quite well as we were using it with school too.

We appear to have got an Action 3 which he can learn to self propell and will be here in 4 - 5 weeks. I suspect it is the cheapest NHS version but I didn't really know what to ask for or what he needs. His normal Physio and OT think he will be fine and trust the WCS people who they work closely with so I'm just hoping it's ok. He's gone for red with smiley face spoke guards. I will just have to try and keep my smiley face when it arrives!
I think I may be able to adapt some of those charts and it has given me a couple of ideas so thanks.

Does anyone else make their own visual timetable or reward charts?

Hi HairyMaclary

I have to set one up for dd1 too. She gets very insistent about what's happening when, so I need a clear outline for her.

If your main problem is non-compliance, would starting with a now/next board help?

so you have what you need to get done (eg clean teeth) and on the other half of the board you put what his reward is (eg TV time, or whatever works for him).

This would get across the idea of working for a reward very quickly, and is concise so not too hard to implement to begin with.

i use an A4 size white board for this (it's magnetic also) and either write/draw (badly) the task or use magnetic sellotape on the back of a picture/symbol.

We are working towards a full scale weekly one, but i just can't get my head around that at the moment!

oh, for a lot of things I use photos (gotta love those laminators) but the do2learn website has a lot of symbols that you can use too, I think.

Ooh where do you get magnetic tape or do you mean velcro tape? I have used clear pockets with magnet and photo inside (blue peter style- tends to fall off) on a plain magnetic board but tape sounds so much easier!

hmm, just trying to find a link.

I got it in Jojomamanbebe, but can't find it on thir website now.

I was in a shop jsut last week though, and they had it in then.

Will have a hunt and see I can find it elsewhere.

It's great, just a bit thicker than sellotape, but works of for eg a photo on a fridge, or a small card onto a board.

this is it

and there are some other fantastic magnetic things there too

Thanks for all your messages, will look at them in detail later, now hiding while DH does bedtime, he is never normally home on time and I am relishing hearing him having the same problem!!!