School staff use three to five behavior crisis visual cards on a lanyard to silently signal administrators during student dysregulation. A teacher can request proximity or indicate control without speaking, reducing verbal noise and speeding de-escalation.
Maybe I need to let that adult know in the hallway, I'm good, I've got this, you don't need to worry. You know, I had an administrator who would stay really close to me if I had a student who was a little upset or dysregulated, and I'd always just let her know, hey, I got this, we're good, like, this isn't anything I've never, you know, I haven't seen before. Um, you know, or, hey, could you stay close? I actually need you to stay close. Um, now we would not expect that you would put every single one of these on your lanyard, right? You would choose 3, 4, 5 that would be beneficial to you, and then you would put those on your lanyard or an emergency lanyard or near where you think, um, those escalations happen frequently, and then you'd be able to utilize these. And so that's how we utilize them at my school. We found them to be incredibly beneficial just to aid in communication without adding layers of noise.
