Evolving Behaviours, Empowering Lives: Positive Behaviour Support for Students with IDD
Free bilingual certificate course on Positive Behaviour Support for students with intellectual disability — with an optional 100-hour supervised practicum.
About this course
Evolving Behaviours, Empowering Lives
Positive Behaviour Support for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities — the classic 1992 NIMH behavioural approach, renewed for today. Bilingual, rights-based, and aligned with the RCI D.Ed.Spl.Ed.(IDD) 2023 syllabus.
🗺️ Your learning journey
Understand the learner → Assess and find the function → Write objectives → Teach with behavioural methods → Support challenging behaviour positively → Carry it into families, teams and adult life.
📘 The six modules
- Welcome & how the course works
- Evolving capacity — every person can grow
- ID today: facts & myths
- What is behaviour? The camera test
- Seven skill domains + WSNA bridge
- Ten challenging-behaviour families
- How behaviour is learned — four keys
- Why, when, what to assess
- Ways of assessing
- The Indian toolkit & BASIC-MR Digital
- Functions of behaviour
- Gathering FBA evidence
- From data to honest hypothesis
- Choosing long-term goals
- Writing behavioural objectives
- Objectives in support plans
- Groups & the IEP link
- Stages of learning
- Reinforcement I & II
- Task analysis & chaining
- Prompting & fading
- Shaping & modelling
- Teaching that prevents problems
- From managing to supporting
- Identify & prioritise
- Iceberg & pathway
- Antecedent strategies
- Replacement skills & FCT
- Differential reinforcement
- Older techniques, modern guardrails
- De-escalation & safety
- Behaviour across settings
- Partnering with families
- Working in teams
- Across the lifespan
- Ethics & the law
- Data & review
- Capstone case
- Final assessment
🛠️ The practicum (now live · about 90 hours)
A 100-hour supervised behaviour-support track designed to the behavioural-support standard of RCI Practical II(C): screen 4 students (BASIC-MR Part B), run full FBAs on 2, build two behaviour support plans plus one group PBIS activity, implement with session logs, re-assess and present — all on the Manovikas digital platform with supervisor approval gates and an e-portfolio.
Based on the 1992 NIMH teacher’s manual (Peshawaria & Venkatesan) and “Evolving Behaviours, Empowering Lives” © 2024 Manovikas · adapted with NIEPID permission · © Manovikas Charitable Society / MIHE Academy