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Challenging Behavior in Young Children: Understanding, Preventing, and Responding Effectively
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With this hands-on guide to classroom harmony, teachers will provide positive, customized behavior support to young children with and without disabilities---and ensure that all students stay safe, engaged, and ready to learn.
Stressing that every child has some kind of special need, especially children with challenging behavior, this book contains numerous practical, indispensable tips for responding to those needs, building relationships with children and their ...
Discusses ways of altering the classroom environment to prevent challenging behaviors and of teaching appropriate behaviors that serve the same function as challenging behaviors.
Addressing Challenging Behaviors and Mental Health Issues in Early Childhood provides a framework for best practices which are empirically based and have been successfully utilized in the classroom.
This book expertly guides early childhood teachers to analyze their classroom elements, routines, and responses to children.
One reason for the increased attention being paid to young children's challenging behaviors is that research is beginning to reveal the alarming prevalence of such behaviors. For instance, in a frequently cited review of prevalence ...
Developing a general outcome measure of growth in social skills for infants and toddlers. ... Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 49, 686–698. ... Cooper, J. O., Heron, T. E., & Heward, W. L. (2007).
From learning activities to transitions to social interactions, children's challenging behavior can influence every aspect of a classroom. Hemmeter, Ostrosky and Corso (2012) have found that teachers of young children report feeling ...