Discipline and aggressive behaviors

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I think that comparing sensory,calming rooms with appropriate supervision to

" isolation cells " that are used as punishment is very scary. Too totally

different approaches to the same behavior. But I think we must look at these

techniques very differently. Unfortunately, I often see people lumping them

together in one category. I have worked very diligently with my son's staff and

our environment at home to create a safe, non-judgmental method to handling my

son's outbursts. It's not perfect, and I need to continue to make changes as

time progresses. Now his school situation is another story. I've worked with

them as well, but we continue to have issues. It seems better for awhile and

then something occurs which makes me wonder whether I should pull him out of

school all together.

I also think that we as parents need to educate each other and learn from each

other as to how to handle our aggressive and/or self-injurious children as the

schools and governmental agencies continue to let us down.

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