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Consultation Services

Classroom/Program Consultation

  • Staff Self-Assessment: Collect input regarding staff's own perceptions of strengths and needs
  • Review of Existing Data: Identify current trends in attendance, behavior, and academic performance
  • Resource Mapping: Identify available supports, curricula, tools, and gaps within the program
  • Environmental Scan: Assess classroom layout, sensory and visual supports, materials
  • Classroom Observation: Live Coaching and Feedback in the Classroom
  • Written Report Summarizing Observation and Recommendations
  • Action Planning with Team: Develop an implementation plan with specific steps and timelines
  • Post Consult Fidelity Checks and Problem Solving

Student Consultation

  • Stakeholder Interviews: May include teachers, related service providers, student, caregiver
  • File Review: ER, IEP, FBA, behavioral or academic progress monitoring
  • Student & Classroom Observation
  • Written Report: Summarizing observation, file review, and interviews, as well as hypothesis development (if behavior is a concern) and recommendations, determine actionable next steps, and receive written report.
  • Post Consult Fidelity Checks and Problem Solving

MAEP Coaching Clinics

What's Included

  • 3 virtual or onsite pre-clinic trainings/meetings 
  • 2 full onsite days with your district team
  • 3 virtual post-clinic trainings/follow-ups
  • 2 fidelity checks  post-clinic

 

Request a Coaching Clinic

What to Expect

  • Full team participation: Special education teachers, paraprofessionals, related service providers, administrators, and general education staff join together for every session.  
  • Customized support: All trainings and onsite visits are tailored to your district’s needs and scheduled at times that work for you.  
  • Student-focused planning: Before the first pre-clinic training, districts provide redacted ER/IEP/FBAs for students (or a narrative of your current behavior/intervention practices) so your coach can prepare meaningful content.  
  • Targeted coaching: Your team identifies focus areas to guide the clinic.  

STAR Autism Intervention Capacity Building Program

Comprehensive Training:

Selected teams will participate in a 2-day workshop covering evidence-based teaching strategies and practices. The workshop provides background knowledge and practical implementation techniques specifically designed for children with developmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorder.

Personalized Consultation:

Selected teams will receive 10 days of individualized consultation visits from STAR trainers to help apply workshop concepts in your specific educational setting. These visits can be customized to address your team's unique challenges and questions.

Resources and Materials:

Selected teams will receive one STAR Combo Kit and Media Center license, providing access to curriculum materials, visual supports, and online resources that facilitate immediate implementation of learned strategies.


The application window for the 25/26 STAR Autism Intervention Capacity Building Program has closed and been awarded.  Congratulations to Kalispell Public Schools. If your district is interested in learning more about the program for the 26/27 school year please email katie.mattingley@mt.gov


EdCor Colorado Virtual Behavior Academy


Behavior is complex. Knowing what to do with it is even harder. Join us for our 6 week Behavior Academy. Become adept at knowing what to do before, during, and after behavior. Participants will explore competing pathways model, function-based strategies, preference assessments, behavior support plan templates, response strategies, treatment integrity, and more.



Session Dates

  • September 24, 2025, 3:00-4:00
  • October 1, 2025, 3:00-4:00
  • October 8, 2025, 3:00-4:00
  • October 15, 2025, 3:00-4:00
  • October 22, 2025, 3:00-4:00
  • October 29, 2025, 3:00-4:00

 

Experienced school personnel should walk away from this course prepared to be effective mentors in teaching models for behavior intervention strategies to their colleagues.

We recommend identifying a "district coach" - typically an instructional coach, autism or behavior specialist, related services staff professional, or special education teacher to help sustain the program's practices long-term. Your team will learn practical and effective instructional strategies for teaching students with developmental disabilities in high-quality learning environments.

The application window for the 25/26 Virtual Behavior Academy has closed.  If you are interested in participating in future Behavior Academy series please email katie.mattingley@mt.gov.

 


OPI Staff are here to help:

Katie Mattingley, Statewide Coordinator Montana Autism Education Project, 406-437-3874

 

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