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Comprehensive lifestyle support for adults with challenging behavior: From rhetoric to reality
The authors discuss their life with their son, JT, a man in his 30s with Autism. In this article, they describe JT's life as it is today and review the lessons they have learned, hopeful that their successes and failures, and their process, will be useful to others.
Family interests and positive behavior support: Opportunities under Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
This chapter describes the 1997 version of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act’s (IDEA) family-participation provisions, the PBS provisions of IDEA, the relationship between the PBS and family-participation provisions, and the consequences of that relationship for families, service providers, and researchers.
Family perspectives on inclusive lifestyle issues for people with problem behavior.
Data were collected through in-depth telephone interviews with 17 families of children, youth, and adults with challenging behavior. This exploratory study focused on inclusion, the lifestyle that goes along with it, and the importance of these issues to families.
Family perspectives on problem behavior.
Telephone interviews were conducted with 17 families who had a family member with mental retardation and/or problem behavior.
Positive behavioral support: Family, school, and community partnerships.
Students with behaviors that impede both their learning in school and their adjustment in the community may be helped to do much better through positive behavior support (PBS).
Quality indicators of professionals who work with children with problem behavior.
Sixteen focus groups were conducted with 69 families of children with disabilities. Findings indicate that families value three particular traits in professionals who work with their children who have problem behavior.
Stakeholder opinions on accessible informational products helpful in building positive practical solutions to behavioral challenges of individuals with mental retardation and/or autism.
Participants, representing six stakeholder groups, discussed in focus group interviews the kinds of useful informational products they believed would be most helpful in building positive, practical solutions to behavioral challenges.
The perspectives of individuals with cognitive disabilities and/or autism on their lives and their problem behavior.
Based on focus groups with nine individuals with disabilities with cognitive disabilities and/or autism, their opinions toward behavioral issues, information strategies and supports were assessed.
From the Beach Center on Disability, University of Kansas. Used with permission. www.beachcenter.org
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