Respectful Relationships and Effective Teaching: Understanding Challenging Behaviors of Persons with Disabilities

2007

Each chapter introduces a real-life situation of a student and educator struggling to overcome a breakdown in communication. Douglass outlines how the situation was initially handled through behavior modification and how, by introducing the practices of communicative intent, the student's motivation and message are unveiled. This guide offers teachers, families, or anyone in the field of service a way to cast off outmoded notions of behavior modification and view their children/students through the enlightened glasses of human being using behavior as a form of communication. Included is an appendix offering a full range of behaviors and their possible motivation. This invaluable resource serves as a reference guide, as well as a springboard for educators and professionals ready to amend old behavioral modification practices.

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Consumers/Families, Professionals

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