The Teacher's Introduction to Pathological Demand Avoidance : Essential Strategies for the Classroom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Truman, Clare, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classroom environment.

Learning disabled children.

Pathological demand avoidance syndrome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 pages)

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Jessica Kingsley Publisher, 2021.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

"This essential guide for working with PDA pupils outlines effective and practical ways that teachers and school staff can support these pupils, by endorsing a child-led approach to learning and assessment. Beginning with an introduction to PDA and how it can affect the education experience, the book is then followed by thoughtful, useful strategies school staff can implement to build a collaborative relationship with pupils and help them to thrive in the school environment. The activities presented aim to make children more comfortable and at ease, and therefore better able to learn. It covers key issues for children with PDA, such as sensory issues, preferred language and phrasing of demands, social skills, and recognising distressed behaviour. The chapter summaries and simple activities listed throughout make this a useful tool for busy teaching staff working with PDA pupils"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

The Teacher's Introduction to Pathological Demand Avoidance

Cover

Of related interest

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. PDA - What Do We Know So Far?

2. Prioritizing Demands

3. Presenting Demands

4. Designing and Implementing a Child-Led Curriculum

5. Invitations to Learn

6. Developing Social Understanding

7. Adapting Traditional Autism Strategies

8. Managing Distressed Behaviour

9. Hidden Forms of Distressed Behaviour

10. Managing the Needs of the PDA Student in a Class of Thirty

11. Eating, Drinking, Washing

12. Paperwork

13. What I Learnt from Spectrum Space

Afterword

Further Advice and Further Reading

References

Index.

ISBN:

9781805015826

1805015826

9781787754881

178775488X

OCLC:

1258216407