Toni Hort. Kicking Inclusion Goals Through Understanding Development & Behaviour

Intro

On Todays Episode we are joined Toni Hort from Illume Development & Behaviour.

Episode Highlights
4:00 minutes: Tell us more about Illume DB

6:30: The Illume Method

11:45: “If it’s important enough to yell come and tell”

12:15: The most fun rule they have ever had 😅

13:00: “The rules they really reflect Your family values and what you want”

14:00: Parents as role models and teachable moments

15:45: How to know you’re making progress on you and your child’s journey & keep it going 

18:00: Meltdowns and Behaviour

20:30: Inclusion & Community

22:00- “This amazing teacher did not see the disability in my child, he looked at where he is at now and where he wants him to be.

28:00- Diagnosis, Identity (beyond their diagnosis) and having empathetic conversations

30:00- “Reasons are not excuses” (using label as an excuse)

31:00-  "No Behaviour is good no behaviour is bad behaviour is just behaviour” & an example related to social context and construct 

“We can’t get our back up because of human behaviour. Instead we have an opportunity to teach”

35:30-“We live in a society and our children need to learn how to function in society. Do I think that society needs to be more understanding? Yeah! Do I think it’s on them to create a world where my children can exist as they biologically come? No! 

38:00- Creating opportunities and community life for her children    

40:00- Doing things differently (rather than weeks full of therapies).  Mentions of Communities Kicking Inclusion Goals:

43:00- Speech having purpose in ‘Real Life’- wanting to be able to deliver an engaging lesson in cadets & wanting to organise hanging out with mates

45:00- “We don’t want him to have to wait until his next appointment with someone to be able to work through something”

47:00- "One of the biggest things I had to do over recent years is take myself out of the equation. " More Communities Kicking Community Inclusion Goals:

54:00- Behaviour and the 5 Whys of lean manufacturing

55:00- The Art of Planning and Preperation

57:00- What local communities are kicking inclusion goals? (Based on Toni’s experience and what she has seen)? Kicking inclusion goals in school.

59:00- “Please send him here I want him” (from Bluewater SS)….“I know both of my kids are wanted at that school (Toni)”

60 minutes- Yet more fantastic communities Kicking Inclusion Goals

1:03: “put the work in, you get out of things what you put in”

1:05: Other great communities

1:07: “If it makes sense to you, it makes sense for you” 

1:08: How to best (in Toni’s experience), how to impart knowledge, experience, expertise onto others in your life- paid or unpaid 

1:14: One of the Illume Frameworks (Behaviour Response) ACKNOWLEDGE. EMPATHISE. ACTION!!

1:19: Homework strike ‘it’s okay’ from vocabulary and substitute with ‘I hear you’

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