The BeCool “Losing It!” program contains four videos, each of which focuses on specific stressors. Each video contains vignettes that contemporary kids can strongly relate to. Instead of “losing it,” the “heroes” of each piece–both boys and girls–talk themselves out of knee-jerk, potentially dangerous reactions.

Module one focuses on Disrespect, as Billy finds himself the target of two spit-wad practicing bullies. Module two finds Charlie dealing with demands from popular kids to help them cheat on their homework, and in the second half, Morganne responds to pressure to drink alcohol. Module three witnesses Evan dealing with the ramifications of overstating his abilities as a pool player. Module four follows Mindy as she finds herself rejected by a girlfriend and, as a result, believes herself to be completely unlikable.

In every scenario, viewers watch firsthand as each of these individuals are tempted into negative self-talk that would result in undesirable consequences, but instead use positive and rational self-talk. The result is kids who are able to keep their perspective, maintain self control and self respect.

All vignettes demonstrate the difference between encountering a situation they can handle versus creating one that they can’t.

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The James Stanfield Company has created a fun, humorous, and effective six-part video series entitled “Mind Your Manners,” which helps students enjoy higher self-esteem and self-confidence through appropriate social behaviors. Not merely a video reminder of how to say “please” and “thank you,” these programs show viewers the right and wrong way to behave in a number of common situations, including those encountered daily at school, in public, and in small, private interactions between individuals.

Knowing that individuals learn best when they’re laughing, the Stanfield “Mind Your Manners” six-part video series educates through live-action comedy skits. Students learn why manners are important, what they are, and how and when they should be used. They also demonstrate how what’s “appropriate” is dependent upon the person they’re with; that manners with relatives and friends should be different than those used with neighbors, teachers, and the general public.

From how to behave on the sidewalk to how to “play well with others” during games, these videos cover a plethora of common, everyday social situations. Good table manners are covered, as are easy solutions to get along with others when taking public transportation. If you are in charge of finding fun activities for developmentally disabled individuals, these videos are a wonderful way for your students to laugh and learn at the same time.

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The “Home of Your Own” installment of the Living With Others series specifically targets skills required to live well with others. Emphasis is placed on sharing, pulling one’s own weight with common household chores, courtesy in terms of music and television volumes, and more. This module contains four videotapes and features 32 common scenarios, plus a comprehensive teacher’s guide and loads of supplemental materials. Plus, each installment comes complete with tools for assessment.

Through video modeling, students are introduced to the comedic mishaps of the “Housemates from Hell.” Taking a cue from multiple studies that prove that humans learn best when laughing, students see egregious behaviors presented in a funny way, making learning these lessons a pleasant and non-threatening experience. They see the right and wrong ways to handle certain situations, helping to cement “good” and “bad” behaviors firmly in their minds.

Designed specifically for the developmentally and cognitively disabled, these videos feature a high-interest format, repetition, and easy-to-understand icons that help to underscore “positive” versus “negative” responses.

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The entire LifeSmart series contains over 37 videotapes, 10 teacher’s guides, hundreds of daily living skills activities, and hours of instruction that can help your students emerge from your classroom into the real world armed with the tools needed to succeed. The LifeSmart video curriculum contains five special sections: JobSmart, PeopleSmart, DateSmart, MoneySmart and SafetySmart. Supplemental programs also include the First Job Survival series, Working 1, Working 2, and Making It, which underscores the importance of effort and making positive first impressions.

Other curriculum include our First Impressions series, which helps teach young adults the importance of grooming (special tapes for both men and women), the impact that clothing has upon strangers and employers, and basic lessons on the importance of having the right attitude. Our Living With Others library is another immensely popular series that reinforces basic lessons on minding one’s manners, how to simply “be” with people, and elemental skills for having one’s own home and being a good roommate.

Knowing that people often learn best when they’re laughing, our LifeSmart curriculum features heavy doses of humor. Our videos feature the finest comedic improv actors available, which helps make learning wince-worthy lessons less threatening.

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The James Stanfield Company recognizes this, and in an effort to give all children a fighting chance to operate comfortably within social situations, has created the nation’s number-one library of research-based behavior management programs. The entire Stanfield collection is designed to give even the most socially challenged child the tools that can make life–be it in pre-school, kindergarten, middle school, high school and beyond–a little more manageable.

Our BeCool VideoModeling® conflict management programs, for instance, concentrate on helping individuals cope with teasing, bullying, and anger–both the anger of others directed at them and their own. We use humor, and lots of it, knowing that studies prove people learn best when they’re laughing. Stanfield BeCool programs include videos, parent/teacher guides, and–in many cases–interactive CDs with multiple games that give kids the chance to practice the “BeCool” mindset in a variety of real-world scenarios.

The BeCool VideoModeling® programs teach how to recognize and identify feelings and how to respond to them in positive, emotionally healthy, and self-loving ways. The results are better social skills, a higher sense of personal self-esteem, and a more emotionally intelligent mindset.

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The Big 11, in ranked order, are 1) trustworthiness, 2) cooperativeness/ability to be a team player, 3) presenting an appropriate appearance, 4) have active listening skills, 5) demonstrate appropriate behavior, 6) is responsible/perseveres, 7) has self-esteem, 8 ) is customer friendly, 9) works with diversity (tolerant), 10) uses appropriate language and 11) self-manages. Our six-module series, containing 18 videotapes, will illustrate the importance of all these behaviors to your students and show them the right ways to demonstrate to employers that they have them all.

The techniques used in the First Job Survival Skills are SCANS based. The fundamental purpose of SCANS (the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) is to create high-skill, high-wage employment opportunities for all students. We worked closely with the SCANS models to optimize the employ-ability quotient of all students–developmentally disabled and otherwise.

Stanfield is the country’s leading publisher of behavior management, social skills and special education teaching materials.

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All the Stanfield video library materials feature clear and understandable video models. Students watch and learn the right and wrong way to handle a number of common situations. Further, our special needs editions feature appropriate pacing, as well as repetition of key points, which helps cement these core skills in their minds.

In addition to our Lifestyles curriculum, which teaches elemental social skills, positive and proven advice on finding and keeping a job, and appropriate environments for displaying affection, we also feature a special BeCool program for special needs individuals. This four-part series, entitled “BeCool” High School–Special Needs Coping with Difficult People, helps special needs individuals handle teasing, anger, criticism and bullying. All modules in this edition feature the dvds, as well as teacher/parent dvd and instructor guides.

You can’t always be there to protect the special needs student or child in your life. These tapes give them the skills to protect themselves and subsequently build self-control and embolden their self-esteem.

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Students learn that how one touches, talks to, and trusts other individuals is dependent upon their placement within the circles that emanate from the self. Students place themselves at the center, and their parents, siblings, close friends, neighbors and strangers into their appropriate rings around the circle. Via this exercise, they understand why it’s okay to hold hands with Aunt Sara, but not with Joey the butcher. In the second section of Level 1, students are introduced to the concept of exploitation and how to establish trust.

In Level 2 (“Second Step”), the tools developed in the first program are expanded to wider and more complex social settings. Level 2 uses a reality-show format where students witness reactions to demonstrations of appropriate and inappropriate affection. Level 2 is an excellent “second step” to Level 1, but can be used as a stand-alone tool for “regular” students and higher grades.

Winifred Kempton, MSW, creator of the best-selling Stanfield “Life Horizons” family life skills programs, praises Circles for its results with the developmentally disabled. Circles Level 1 comes with 17 live-action video programs in 3 dvds; Circles Level 2 comes with 18 live-action video programs in 3 dvds. Both come complete with the giant wall graph, 50 large laminated graph icons, 50 student personal graphs, 300 “peel ‘n stick” icons, and a complete teacher’s guide.

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Most kids automatically respond to bullies either hotly or coldly. “Hot” behaviors include showing one’s anger and blowing up. “Cold” responses are typified by pleading or giving up. In most cases, both of these approaches only make matters worse.

Instead, our bullying prevention programs give kids multiple tools for remaining cool and in control of a wide variety of bullying situations. They learn how to recognize dangerous bullies in advance–and how to avoid “bully me” behaviors. Utilizing these skills translates into higher self-esteem, self-confidence and self-control.

In the bullying modules of the BeCool series, a variety of scenarios are presented, and kids can watch the results of all the different methodologies. Through our use of “video modeling,” a concept pioneered by Dr. James Stanfield, viewers see not only the recommended courses of action, but also what can happen when kids respond with knee-jerk hot and cold reactions. Included with the videos are tapes specifically for use by parents and teachers, as well as a teacher’s guide.

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This multi-volume library includes 18 videos that can help even the most socially challenged individuals. Three critical areas of behavior are addressed: “Mind Your Manners,” “Being with People,” and “Home of Your Own.”

In the Mind Your Manners section (three DVDs) attention is paid to understanding and employing good manners. In addition to addressing the difference between manners appropriate for relatives and friends versus those with neighbors and employers, students also learn key skills for showing respect for strangers, giving and receiving compliments, starting conversations, how to be gracious when playing games, when and how to shake hands, and more.

In the Being with People section (eight videotapes) students are shown time-honored, basic social graces that make studying, working and living with others more pleasant. Students are shown what “active listening” is and how to employ it, how to respect other’s privacy, how to apologize, how to show appreciation, and more. In the third installment of the series, “Home of Your Own,” kids learn immeasurably valuable insights for living with others.

Though the Living with Others library is excellent for every student, these videos were specifically designed by the Ohio State University Nisonger Center for persons with developmental disabilities. The results have been proven effective in multiple studies.

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