Normally, when a child would escape from demand he may cry, whine, shout and throw a tantrum. If you are special education caregiver who doesn’t have good background in special needs, you would give in to those kinds of tactics from a child. However, when you are trained and have the wide knowledge on how to handle a situation like this, which is difficult, then it will be such a breeze from you.
When a child throws a tantrum, cry or shout, the best thing you can do is to ignore the child until the time he calms down. Because when one you reinforce any kind of bad behaviors by providing attention, definitely the behavior will not disappear and it will hinder the child’s learning.
In my experience as a Applied Behavior Analysis therapist, I have come to know that planned ignoring bad behaviors of a child can reap results. It was when you ignore when child will learn to calm themselves. It is important that bad behaviors are addressed for children with special needs will have more learning opportunities to be had.
Parents should also try to ignore when they see or hear their child displaying bad behaviors when under the care of a therapist to avoid reinforcing it. After all, therapist are hired to facilitate learning of skills for the child. It is important to trust the therapist for they know how to handle bad behaviors. Although it is given that there are times when a child is a not complaint, bear into mind that therapist are there to pull the child from his state and bring on learning for the child.
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