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Signposts for Building Better Behaviour

Parenting Research Centre

Signposts for Building Better Behaviour gives professionals evidence-based tools to support parents in promoting positive behaviour and new skills in children aged 3-16 who have a developmental delay or an intellectual disability.

  • ACT
  • NSW
  • NT
  • QLD
  • SA
  • Tas
  • Vic
  • WA

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Product type: Professional learning

Contact details

Parenting Research Centre
ABN: 25 023 841 736

https://www.parentingrc.org.au/tools/signposts-building-better-behaviour-training-program/

info@parentingrc.org.au

Focus areas

  • Self-regulation and engagement

Curriculum alignment

Prospective users

Audience: Targeted small group early intervention (Tier 2), Intensive individualised approach (Tier 3)

Communities: Neurodiversity or disability

Context: School or centre-based

Main beneficiaries: Early learning, Foundation/Prep, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11

Delivery style: Classroom teacher is trained

Aims & approach

Signposts training teachers and other professionals includes:

  • Phase 1 (pre-reading)
  • Phase 2 (2 day training workshops - approximately 6 hours per day)
  • Phase 3 (providers deliver the Signposts program with support and guidance from trainers)

Through the case examples given and explanation by the program facilitators, teachers are guided to work out how to observe a child's behaviour systematically and to change either the trigger or the consequences provided in order to effect change in the child's behaviour. At present, the program is mainly available to teachers and families in Victoria.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor
  • Implementation training webinars or modules
  • Ongoing helpdesk, email or phone support

Evidence

Cameron et al. (2009). State-wide dissemination of the Signposts for Building Better Behaviour program in Victoria, Australia: Model and process. Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 6, 99.

May et al. (2013). Father participation with mothers in the Signposts program: An initial investigation. Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 38(1), 39-47

Yap et al. (2014). Evaluation of a parenting program for children with behavioural problems: Signposts in Singapore. Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 39(2), 214-221.

Hayes et al. (2010). Outcomes of an early intervention program for children with disruptive behaviour. Australasian Psychiatry, 18(6), 560-566.