Stubborn Children

I work in a kindergarten class for children with disabilities and emotional problems. The student one in particular that I'm working with can be very stubborn. We used a clipboard behavior modification with him (he stickers when he behaves and when he was 12 years old, he manages to do something fun like music, art or books). The clip board worked for almost a week, but these days it has not worked at all. It does not seem interested in more. He said he did not want the reward.

What other techniques to do with children who are terribly stubborn?

There are some principles of reinforcement. These principles are:

Satiety - It seems to be the case with your student. He is tired of what is offered. Sometimes you give too much too reinforcer.

Deprivation - This means that the child is more likely to find something motivating, because it does not receive the reinforcer as it wishes.

Frequency - Sometimes, the frequency of reinforcement is too low or too high a rate. Too low and the child does not actually stronger or is it only occasionally. He or she becomes disinterested. A rate too high and that the child is satisfied. Start with fairly high frequency of 1:1 or 2:1, then fade to a calendar intermittent.

One of your respondents mentioned building a menu, which works very well.

Give students the choice to let him feel that he has some control.
For example, with my own students stubborn, we let them make choices from small "do you want to use the red pencil, or blue pencil."

When given a choice, they feel like they are in greater control of the situation and be more willing to cooperate.

Just something to try,

Good luck!

I work with a blind / autistic child who is very stubborn. before I started working with her, I thought I knew many people who were stubborn. However, it is like all the others combined. it just surprised me a few days. However, I put up a reward system that seems to work with it. love the cards. shes playing with them. most days there is nothing she will not do for a map. However, there are days that the cards do not work. the key is staying one step ahead of them and keeping the new rewards. no child will work all year or even two weeks in a row for the same reward. talk to the child and ask them what they would like as a reward. we listen to music, talking to the principle of telling him what a good day to have it, we eat snacks, nothing. Sometimes it takes creativity.

By age of the child, giving reasons can help, then do not choose. Example. we have to do these things, in what order you want to do today?

sometimes give him what he wants. Children and adolescents are terribly misunderstood, and if you compromise, you get what you want, just maybe not as fast. parents need to learn, Gish

Try "reverse" psychology in their desire to do something. If it seems that his idea or he seems to be in control of decision-making process, it is more likely to join.

Or, if it is something other kids are interested (or willing to do so), you can engage them and see if the rebels will jump on the bandwagon.

You can also try something like ...

"Remember how good you were to ______? Can you show me how you did it again?"

So why do you think of the sticker / token system that you stopped working? It might be easier to start with something that was working and fix it instead of starting over.
Comes with a strengthening / menu. Make sure you have 7-15 different items in the menu. Ask the child in particular that the things he loves. C. It