The BeCool Paradigm and Adolescents with Special Needs
BeCool is the first program to bring the power of Assertiveness Strategies to the person with learning and developmental disabilities. It is a simple but powerful approach to feelings and behavior management. It will empower all students to cope effectively in a world filled with aggression and conflict.
Cold-Hot-Cool Graphics
The BeCool programs use a temperature analogy to colors that symbolize COLD, HOT, and COOL responses. Each illustrated response is paired with the color to symbolize that response.
These colors will be of special help to the learner who is significantly cognitively challenged, who may be quite capable of recalling the neutral color or symbol of the COOL response and act accordingly, but unable to verbalize behaviors associated with acting HOT, COLD, and COOL.
As the specific behavioral components of each response are presented and practiced, the teacher is encouraged to continually refer to these colors and the "feeling tones" they evoke.