If you do not allow the use of emergency behavior intervention, the pre-service training curriculum for emergency behavior intervention must focus on early identification of potential problem behaviors and strategies and techniques for less restrictive interventions, including the following curriculum components:
  (1) Developing and maintaining an environment that supports positive and constructive behaviors;
  (2) The causes of behaviors potentially harmful to a child, including aspects of the environment;
  (3) Early signs of behaviors that may become dangerous to a child or others;
  (4) Strategies and techniques a child can use to avoid harmful behaviors;
  (5) Teaching a child to use the strategies and techniques of your operation's de-escalation protocols to avoid harmful behavior, and supporting the child's efforts to progress into a state of self-control;
  (6) Less restrictive strategies caregivers can use to intervene in potentially harmful behaviors;
  (7) Less restrictive strategies caregivers can use to engage a child and de-escalate a situation;
  (8) Addressing circumstances when all de-escalation strategies fail; and
  (9) The risks associated with the use of prone or supine restraints, including positional, compression, or restraint asphyxia.

Source Note: The provisions of this §748.887 adopted to be effective April 25, 2022, 47 TexReg 2248