Challenging behavior at work involves crossing social and professional norms in a way that disrupts work and upsets co-workers. To manage such behavior, you must learn how to understand what happened ...
This post was written with Jessica Minahan and originally appeared in the Harvard Education Letter. About 10 percent of the school population, or 9–13 million children, struggle with mental health ...
As parents, we’ve all been there: a child is acting out, testing limits, or simply making things more complicated than they need to be. Whether toddlers have meltdowns, teenagers act out, or even ...
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If you're anything like most pet parents, you'd probably love to have a magic wand that you could wave over your dog during training sessions to help them master any skill or command instantly. But, ...
A learning disability is defined by 3 core criteria: lower intellectual ability (usually an IQ of less than 70), significant impairment of social or adaptive functioning, and onset in childhood.
Challenging behavior among preschoolers isn’t easy to navigate. It can get especially frustrating if you feel your child is being unfairly disciplined in the classroom. Here are five takeaways from a ...
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 ...
Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Vol. 45, No. 1 (March 2010), pp. 81-93 (13 pages) An archival study was conducted to document (a) types of challenging behavior, and (b ...