Brothers with Down Syndrome.

[7heDubz]

that's the conscious part, not the subconscious.

Children with Down syndrome have a propensity to engage in behaviours that can be particularly problematic for family members and caregivers, as well as professionals who work with them. Such behaviour, referred to by Doss and Reichle (1991) as challenging behaviour, is defined as that which results "…in self-injury or injury of others, causes damage to the physical environment, interferes with the acquisition of new skills, and/or socially isolates the learner"

two major functional categories of behaviour as either to obtain or to escape/avoid. That is, behaviour may function to obtain consequences such as attention (e.g., from a parent or teacher) and access to objects (e.g., snacks, toys) or activities (e.g., recess, trip to the park). Behaviour may also function to escape/avoid consequences such as attention (e.g., interactions with peers) and objects (e.g., certain foods) or activities (e.g., academic tasks).

they are just like human beings. They do things to get the desired result. If fr throwing a fork at your face they get punished with a silent treatment or with going to their room they will throw a fork at you to get that reult. If things are hectic and they want everyone to calm down, he may drop a glass.

Nobody likes pain. And, i'm not advocating it here, just saying that how -> I <- would try at least once to handle these situations with is pain. A good ass whoopin, a sharp (very much so) pinch to the arm, whereas yelling/screaming can just be percieved as attention, neither good nor bad, but in our deepest genes "pain" is a bad thing. a negative thing.

The second component of the functional behaviour assessment process consists of direct observation of the individual and documentation of events that occur prior to and following the challenging behaviour. One example is an antecedent-behaviour-consequence (ABC) analysis, in which antecedents and consequences are documented as they occur in the natural environment. The child is observed during his/her daily routine and the occurrence of challenging behaviours, events that precede the specific behaviour (antecedents), and events that follow the specific behaviour (consequences) are documented. Analysis of the pattern of antecedents and consequences results in a hypothesised function of the challenging behaviour..

ex.
Child playing on floor, parent attending to sibling.
Child climbs onto table
Caregiver rushes over, swoops child up, telling her "No, no, honey, that's dangerous" followed by a hug and a kiss. Caregiver puts child down with toys and plays with child
Therefore, Climbing on table = Attention. Whether negative, or positive, it is attention.


To help enforce the "Negative/Positive attention, they are the same thing" argument, there are two different kinds of Extroverts. Those who seek Positive, and those who seek negative attention.

Bullies, People looking for a fight, ect. are out to find and recieve negative attention.




But hey, all I know is what I read on the internet, maybe you (parents) give it a try, maybe you dont, maybe they have their own damn way of doing things and "I ain't gonna change how i act for nobody just cause they think somethings a good idea" because they are narrow minded.

All in how you view things ^.^