Anyone else have a problem w/ use of preferred & non-preferred tasks?

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Isn't there a better way to describe it so that the deficit is truly reflected

why a child does or does not do a task? When a child does complete a task

because it's easy or requires no help/assistance from the teacher. I don't think

that it was necessarily a preferred task, do you?

What about non-preferred tasks? What have you put in an iep for wording here? I

just think that teachers use this for code as the little bugger doesn't want to

do the work. Why does the school always want to put somehting like this in an

iep under weakness: Child will not initiate, sustain and complete non-preferred

assignments & material?

Have you been able to write it up differently? Were you able to get the " ole

team " on board that your kid isn't being defiant by not doing a " non-preferred

task? " Thanks.