Its not that they’re “allowed to” behave a certain way...
... it’s that approaches geared around how to address bad behaviour in kids without autism literally do not work, at all.
From layman’s perspective, I can totally see how people might think that it would be disruptive and seem massively unfair that autistic kids get away with bad behaviour and how that might negatively affect other kids) but in practice, when done right and when you have staff who are knowledgable and well trained, it can actually work really well. Children can understand when other kids are different, and if that difference is acknowledged and not played down, then generally speaking children with autism who behave “badly” cause less issues than when kids without disabilities behave badly.
Yeah, it’s sometimes difficult (I’ve been spat at in the face, punched, bitten) but if you come from a baseline idea that children with disabilities shouldn’t be locked away, and work with that rather than seeing manifestations of their problems as a trigger for excluding them, it works.
(, Tue 27 Mar 2018, 10:24, Share, Reply)