A Special Challenge: Roger Roger is brooding again. His brooding is typically followed by agitated behavior and a blowup

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A Special Challenge: Roger
Roger is brooding again. His brooding is typically followed byagitated behavior and a blowup or peak. He seems to be in theearly stages of his typical pattern. Today, as usual, everyonein the special middle school for kids with disabilities iswondering what will happen, worried about whether Roger willmake it through the day in school or have to be sent home.Everyone is cringing, realizing that today seems likely be anotherin which the adults end up in a physical struggle withRoger or somebody gets hurt or property is destroyed.
Physical struggles with seventh graders like Roger don'tmake people feel good, competent, or wise.They make the adults whoare responsible for Roger and the rest of the school feeldefeated and stupid. Roger seems to know that. He revels intaking the fight to others. Roger's anger seemsbottomless. Adults struggle to find what sets him off.Sometimes, it seems like academic work, sometimes it seemslike something else. The first goal in trying to keep himin school is just to keep him from hurting himself orsomeone else in one of his frequent explosions. The staff ofthe school try to ready themselves for what they've come tosee as the inevitable punch, push, or flying chair that marksthe beginning of one of Roger's seething, full-blown tantrums.In his tantrums he screams things like, "F-ck you! "Tohell with everybody!" "You'd better not try to stop me!" "I'Ilknock your f-cking teeth down your throat, and that's not a threat,that's a PROMISE!- He tears up books, throws chairs--actuallythrew one through a supposedly shatter-proofwindow. Everyone hopes that nobody gets hurt in the process ofrestraining Roger. Everybody would like to find a way ofreducing the frequency and severity of Roger's tantrums.
Some people call Roger's conduct "challenging behavior."Well, it's a challenge, for sure. But that euphemism doesn'thelp anyone address the problem. True, Roger's behavior is achallenge to the staff, who must figure out how to change it.And teaching Roger any academic or social skills isa challenge. Whatever academic task the teachergives him, whatever academic or behavioral expectation ateacher sets, Roger seems to follow the same pattern: brooding,becoming more and more agitated, eventually engaging the teacher orother staff in an all-out physical struggle. Teachers havetried modifying his assignments, lowering theirexpectations, requiring only a minimum amount of work.But, so far Roger has been "winning" in that hedoesn't conform to any expectations for doing actualschoolwork. The teachers are so frustrated that they'djust like to leave Roger alone, let him sit quietly (ifhe will) without doing anything.
QUESTION: Discuss what assessmentinformation you would like to have about him. Write mock IEPgoals and positive behavior intervention plan for Roger.