The Behavioural Perspective
The phrase ‘child displays challenging behaviour’ is often misconstrued as the child has a disability or additional need. Challenging behaviour often affects many people in the community; this is not indicative of a person with additional needs and is not a preordained result of disability. The progression of challenging behaviour is less likely to occur when children with a developmental disability are educated in and taught pro social behaviours from an early age this in conjunction with environments that facilitate and help to reduce the necessity to behave in challenging ways (Challenging Behaviour, …show more content…
Foreman (2010,) advises that schools that focus on gaining knowledge, acceptance and understanding of others, opposed to social rivalry and judgment, are more likely to have a culture that is more compassionate, all-encompassing and is conducive to positive learning outcomes for all students.
When debating if a child has an additional need or a disability educators need to take into consideration the use of a checklist prior to making judgments based purely on observations of undesired behaviour. This checklist may