Understanding your child's behavior.....

Do you understand your child's behavior? Even when he/she is mis-behaving?

How about your child's teacher or childcare provider? Do they frequently get frustrated by how your child responds to directions?

A child's behavior is always logical from their perspective, but sometimes the rest of us need a little help keeping up. The Partners Resource Network has put together a new information packet to help families, caregivers, and teachers develop a new way of thinking about behavior and more importantly find positive ways to respond.

The notion of using positive approaches to help students learn new behavioral skills is not new. What we sometimes forget is the requirement under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) that for the student with disabilities who exhibits inappropriate or unacceptable behavior, schools must consider the use of positive interventions to help that student learn more acceptable alternative behaviors.

This curriculum was developed to help families understand the "behavior process" so that parents can speak confidently about the need to teach their child positive behavioral alternatives instead of simply punishing behaviors that are disruptive.

Begin Positive Behavioral Interventions at: www.partnerstx.org/PositiveBehavioralInterventions.htm