Managing the Cycle of Meltdowns for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder

How to keep meltdowns from overheating your classroom

This book outlines practical steps for preventing and responding to the various phases of meltdown behavior in students with ASD. Based on Geoff Colvin’s best-selling book, Managing the Cycle of Acting Out Behavior in the Classroom, this practitioner-friendly guide provides special and general education teachers with his seven-phase positive behavior support model that includes interventions for each phase. Readers will also find:

• An overview of the nature of autism and meltdown phases


• Case studies with examples of behaviors and plans


• A chapter on parent communication


• Prevention techniques for the early stages of the cycle