By starting from the idea that students do well if they can, teachers can help them develop skills to avoid academic and ...

By seeking to first understand behaviors, teachers can better support their students receiving special education services.

The Appeals Committee’s recent decision under section 29 of the Education Act 1998 provides useful guidance for schools ...

Early childhood experts and educators discuss navigating challenging preschool behavior, suspension and expulsion. Here are five things to remember.

My experience tells me that challenging behavior may be the latest example of the damage done when we inaccurately blame parents. We think that parents being passive, permissive and inconsistent ...

Gentle but effective ways to deal with children’s challenging behaviour, according to a family psychotherapist Use a calm tone and set clear boundaries.

After appropriately identifying the behavior in a child with autism, a suitable intervention can be used to proactively, or reactively, reduce and replace it. Challenging behaviors can be difficult to ...

Want to know the best way to stay calm when someone's behavior drives you nuts? The answer is not what you think. Or maybe it is exactly what you think!

Doctors are resorting to powerful psychotropic drugs, such as antipsychotics and antidepressants, to calm patients with intellectual disabilities – even if they don’t have a history of mental ...

As estimates of effect size can be misleading when event rates are low, outcomes with higher baseline risk (for example non-improvement rather than improvement of challenging behaviour and non ...

Sarah Elgie, Richard P. Hastings, Staff Definitions of Challenging Behavior, Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Vol. 37, No. 2 (June 2002), pp. 202-208 ...

Those with a record of “challenging behaviour” were more than twice as likely as those without to receive the medication (BMJ, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h4326).