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Email Newsletter
July 2004
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Recently we enriched our Big Reward
Store with the addition of several massage chairs and massage ottomans,
personal music stations with CD players and wireless headphones, a second
pool/ping pong/air hockey table, a foosball table, karaoke machines, an
electric drum set and keyboard, and some new electronic games. |

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JRC's Big Reward Store is a
fun environment for the students. We spared no expense
to create a room so filled with enjoyable activities, and with a happy and
dazzling ambiance, that it would serve as a powerful motivator to encourage our students to
improve both their academic and other behaviors. The students have behavioral
contracts that enable them to gain access to this Big Reward Store,
and to enjoy the items it contains. In these contracts a student
must go for a certain period of time without showing pre-specified
problematic behaviors. If students successfully make their
contracts, they can gain access to the Big Reward Store. As the
students behaviors improve, the length of these contracts gradually
are increased to longer and longer periods. |

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Patrick relaxes in one of the new massage chairs from The Sharper
Image. |

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David listens to his favorite CD on one four
personal music stations. |

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Will and Damian play a game of ping pong. |

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Shane anticipates Vladimir's next move on the Foosball
table. |

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Air hockey is a popular activity in the Big Reward
Store! |

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Tanya and Carol sing their favorite song with the
karaoke machine while Shaun plays the electric drums. |

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Vladimir plays a life-like video game that includes a
Yamaha Wave Runner simulator.
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Judge Rotenberg Educational Center
240 Turnpike Street
Canton, MA 02021
Phone: (781) 828-2202 Fax: (781) 828-2804
www.judgerc.org
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