Proper behavior modifications only change behavior over the course of time. That doesn’t stop a single incident from causing harm. With all due respect to the teachers at your son’s school, those children aren’t this child. Each case is unique. This is just another example of passing judgment on school employees without having walked in their shoes.
“Proper behavior modifications only change behavior over the course of time. That doesn’t stop a single incident from causing harm.”
They’ll never work if they’re not used. The risk of harm can’t be taken out of anything. Districts lower that risk by giving teachers the proper training and the resources needed to teach each child.
“With all due respect to the teachers at your son’s school, those children aren’t this child. Each case is unique.”
Again, that’s why each child has their own individual IEP.
This kids ARD committee determined he could be mainstreamed, now what other things he needed, I have no idea, but whatever they were, the district is obligated to provide them.
“This is just another example of passing judgment on school employees without having walked in their shoes.”
If this is about the post to rwfromkansas, you should check out rwfromkansas passing judgment on a disabled student. The teacher also seemed to pass judgment on an entire program, not one unique case at a time.
Not exactly. ABA protocols formulated by a certified BCBA (who have conducted FBAs on that particular violent or agressive behavior) can tell you what the antecedent is to the behavior, and what steps are to be done — consistently and by competent personnel — to immediately diffuse the behavior or completely avoid it by redirection.
An autistic child acted out in a classroom because there were no behavior modifications in place. I don’t need to walk in anyone shoes to know that was the case.