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When Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Understanding the Challenging Behaviors of Young Children and Students With Disabilities
Build your understanding of behavior as communication, and learn to interpret the messages behind the actions. This book provides information and tools to support all children whose primary way to communicate is through challenging behaviors. Enlightening, sometimes humorous stories provide examples of how children use behavior to communicate. Engaging exercises and end-of-chapter questions can be used to improve current practice.
Benefits
- Gain a proactive, strengths-based model for supporting children in learning to self-regulate their behavior.
- Find clear descriptions of the ways in which all children use different behaviors to communicate.
- Interpret the message behind challenging behaviors with provided questions and protocols.
- Get tools to help you develop strategies that meet children’s needs and encourage more acceptable means of expression.
- Understand central nervous system disabilities and how they affect learning and communication.
- Explore the hidden issues that may affect behavior.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Forms of Communication
3. Functions of Communication
4. The Big Picture of Challenging Behaviors. Six Critical Questions
5. Hidden Issues
6. Disability Issues
7. Supportive Learning Environments
8. Proactive Behavioral Strategies
9. Proactive Instructional Strategies
10. Reactive Strategies
11. A Child-Centered Approach
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
- Assess Your Perspective
- Acceptable Behaviors
- Unacceptable Behavior
- Sometimes Acceptable Behavior
- Personal Reflection (chapter 1)
- Personal Reflection (chapter 2)
- Communication Best and Worst
- Communication Best Factors
- Communication Worst Factors
- Simple Communication Assessment
- Simple Communication Assessment: José
- Simple Communication Assessment: Samuel
- Simple Communication Assessment: Billy
- Personal Reflection (chapter 3)
- Six Critical Questions of the Big Picture
- Personal Reflection (chapter 4)
- Personal Reflection (chapter 5)
- Personal Reflection (chapter 6)
- Personal Reflection (chapter 7)
- Your Current Learning Space
- Your Improved Learning Space
- Most and Least in Control
- Most in Control Situations
- Least in Control Situations
- Personal Reflection (chapter 8)
- Personal Reflection (chapter 9)
- Personal Reflection (chapter 10)
- Getting to Know the Child
- Guiding Questions for Supporting Behavior
- Personal Reflection (chapter 11)
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Positive Behavior Supports
- Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders
- Crisis Prevention Institute
- OSEP Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports
Graphic Organizers
Child Welfare
Differentiated Instruction and Universal Design
- Differentiation Central
- Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
- NC State University College of Design
- The Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center
- Learning, Lighting and Color: Lighting Design for Schools and Universities in the 21st Century
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