Spongebob Squarepants and The Krabby Patty Connection

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Spongebob SquarepantsandThe Krabby Patty
Connection

• Looking at ASD Differently

Presenter Kristi Bronstetter
Autism Spectrum Disorder Specialist
St. Joseph County ISD
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Meet Jakob

• 10 years old
• loves food, wonder pets, Spongebob, computer and
  playing on playground
• Non-verbal
• Goes to school in a self-contained ASD classroom
  in an elementary building
• Has made new friends in the Bulldog Buddy peer to
  peer program

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How It All Began

• The team was sinking
• -Strong team, but scheduling difficulties
• -Utilized Meeting Mechanics to create
• a plan but had some bumps with
  implementing over-reliance on computer
• -Lack of consistency among staff

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Honoring the Process

• MEETING MECHANICS
• Problem Identification
• -Running Away Physically leaving a work area
  within the classroom or running away from a
  direction given by an adult verbally or with a
  visual.

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Meeting Mechanics

• Problem Specification
• -ran away when ending preferred activity and
  asked to go to a non-preferred activity
• -intensified when going from computer to any
  activity
• -computer is highly preferred
• -loves Spongebob and sings the song often
• -when Jakob runs he seeks out tables (under, on
  top of) under blankets/shirts, chairs. Sometimes
  runs out of the room.
• -loves his own reflection in glass/mirrors
• -providing him with choices and movement have
  been successful interventions in the past.
• -does not respond to time limits set
• -made connections with Bulldog Buddies
• -when work was taken to Jakob when he was
  under/on top of the table or covered in a
  blanket, he would complete the work

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Meeting Mechanics

• Brainstorm
• -All Ideas Are Good Ideas
• -Notice how this plan utilizes some of the
  ideas that were shared during brainstorming in a
  way that if they would have been used in
  isolation, would not have been as effective.

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How Bikini Bottom Began to Take Shape

• Clustering allowed us to take a look at Jakobs
  classroom environment, his sensory needs and the
  peer to peer connections he was making.
• The data drove our process
• -Having all members of the team do an
  observation had a huge impact
• Forced us to really look at the problem
  (running away) and shift to what our goal/outcome
  was (to complete the tasks on his
  schedule/mini-schedule)

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Spongebob Squarepants 101

• ALL staff had to learn about the characters
• Bikini Bottom
• Spongebob works as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab
• Mr. Krabs is the owner
• Plankton is Mr. Krabs biggest rival
• Plankton owns low rank restaurant The Chum Bucket
• Plankton tries to steal Krabby Patty recipe

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The Krabby Patty Connection

• Discovered Jakob likes the edible candy
• This created a problemhow to utilize without
  going broke
• Also gave us an opportunity to utilize components
  of the first plan that needed to be tweaked
• Went from computer time to krabby patty time?

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The Krabby Patty Connection andJakobs
Mini-Schedule

• To earn an edible Krabby Patty the rule is
• -Complete all of the tasks on each of his
  mini-schedules.
• For each task completed Jakob can earn one Krabby
  Patty on his mini schedule.

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The Krabby Patty Connection and Jakobs
Mini-Schedule

• Each Krabby Patty on his mini-schedule earns him
  a piece of the giant Krabby Patty at the end of
  each activity.

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The Krabby Patty Connection and Jakobs
Mini-Schedule

• Once a giant Krabby Patty is made, Jakob earns an
  edible Krabby Patty.

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The Krabby Patty Connection and Learning Centers

• Meltdowns. Particular tables in the room
  translated to work time
• Connection
• -Created a Spongebob visual

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The Krabby Patty Connection andLearning Centers

• Place larger corresponding Spongebob visuals
  around room.
• Jakob chooses order in which to find the matching
  pictures.
• Built our plan from what we knew about Jakob in
  the Problem Specification part of the process
  need for movement and having choices.
• Utilized same visual board as in first plan but
  replaced computer with Spongebob choices instead.
• As a result, discovered his love for novelty
  items which increased the number of tools in our
  toolbox as far as items he wanted to work for.

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The Spongebob Squarepants Sensory Connection

• Our data also told us that
• -likes to be under, behind, inside, on top of
  objects/furniture/clothing
• Plan includes an underwater Spongebob haven
• Rules
• -utilize break card anytime
• -timer is set
• -only earns krabby patties when he uses break
  card
• Team is currently developing numerous sensory
  choices

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Ongoing Data Collection

• Data was collected by various team members over
  the course of a day but on different days.
• Prior to implementation of plan Data showed
  that Jakob was running away on average of 4x
  during structured activities/work times.
• Since implementation of plan Data shows that
  Jakob is running away on average of 1x during
  structured activities/work times.

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QUESTIONS?

• The energy I was putting into the daily power
  struggles was overwhelming. Ive put a lot of
  energy into this plan, but in the end it has been
  so worth it to know that I am doing something
  productive for Jakob.
• -Steffany McConn
• Jakobs Teacher