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	Kristie Melkers BellaOnline's Special Education Editor

Adaptive Behavior in Children with Disabilities
Assessing adaptive behavior is a valuable way to help form a meaningful educational program for children with disabilities.

Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behaviors [offsite link]
The Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs to raise the awareness and implementation of positive, evidence-based practices and to build an enhanced and more accessible database to support those practices.

Developing a Positive Attitude Towards IEP’s
How teacher's can impact the success of IEP's by developing a better understanding, attitude and more effective behavioral modification strategies.

Information on Interim Alternative Educational Placements [offsite link]

Learned Helplessness
Is your child feeling hopeless because of their failure to succeed in school? If so, he may be at risk for learned helplessness, which can be a much larger problem.

Overwhelming Odds - The Story of John O’Leary
Find out the story of John O'Leary who survived a horrendous tragedy and turned it into a story of personal growth and determination while finding the true meaning of lasting happiness and success.

Positive Behavior Support
A brief overview of positive behavioral supports as a powerful tool for assisting children in overcoming behavior challenges that prevent them from learning and finding success in the school and home environments.

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports [offsite link]
A methodolog to help make problem behavior less effective, efficient, and relevant, and desired behavior more functional.

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