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Behavior Solutions for the Inclusive Classroom: A Handy Reference Guide That Explains Behaviors Associated with Autism, Asperger's, Adhd, Sensory Proc by Beth Aune, Beth Burt, Peter Gennaro

stefhyena's review

3.0

I found this book interesting, accessible and the way it is organised helps with simply looking up various behaviours. It helps me understand what to expect from children on the autism spectrum and be understanding about behaviours that can't be helped. All this is good. The suggestions about what to do about it are simple but not always practical for real life classrooms. Some of the solutions (let them eat lollies) are ones that would be tempting to do to manage the behaviour but might have health (eg tooth decay) issues for the child in the long term and also modify their behaviour in undesirable ways for the sake of peace in my classroom right now.

So like all "easy solutions" books it is not as good as it claims to be. The information however is real, maybe this could be a first step for a teacher who is likely to have children with these sorts of behaviours in the classroom and then having considered the source and effect of the behaviour the teacher might want to know more from a less simple text. I know little enough about spectrum disorders to find it mildly helpful and I know some of the people I've worked with found it more valuable than I did.