Hello Dear listeners, the fourth podcast episode on the topic  “Stereotypy and effective treatment” is here! I had a great conversation  with senior consultant and BCBA-D Kelsey Ruppel from FTF Behavioural  consulting. What is more, Kelsey worked as a special education teacher  helping children with developmental disabilities. Kelsey’s areas of  interest are treatment of severe problem behaviour, practical functional  assessment and skill-based treatment that was developed by her  colleague Dr. Gregory Hanley, and preventing behaviour problems of  developing and worsening in young children using an approach called  Balance program.

We went through different important questions on the topic of  stereotypy, for example, the difference between motor and vocal  stereotypy, the possible functions of stereotypic behaviour, child  controlling the environment, possible effective strategies to manage  stereotypy and other gripping questions. I got the information that  there is a short-term and a long-term treatment possibility for  stereotypy. This is an important and challenging topic to discuss and  Dr. Ruppel gives us a lot of answers to our questions. Have a great  listening to this podcast!