Understanding Challenging Behaviour from an Educational Perspective
Keywords:
Challenging Behaviour, Educational Perspective, Severe Learning Difficulties, SLD, Intervention, Methodologies, Support, Behaviour ManagementAbstract
Education and educators have much to offer in working with pupils with severe learning difficulties whose behaviour is considered challenging. Until recently, the field of research and intervention has been largely dominated by psychologists, who, in the main have adopted a behavioural approach to understanding and intervening with children with challenging behaviour. This has often encouraged those who work with pupils with challenging behaviour to concentrate on the behaviour alone, whilst paying little attention to the causes of the behaviour, its function for the individual and how more acceptable alternatives can be taught.
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