| BEHAVIOR LABELS
While Labels have become the way in today's society, at Our Lady of Grace each child is celebrated for their own unique gifts and not a label.
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Sometimes labels are mistakenly identified as the causes of behavior. For example, a person might say that an autistic child engages in problem behaviors (such as screaming, hitting himself, refusal to follow instructions) because the child is autistic. In other words the person is suggesting that autism causes the child to engage in the behavior. However, autism is simply a label that describes a pattern of behaviors the child engages in. The label cannot be the cause of the behavior because the label does not exist as a physical entity or event. The causes of the behavior must be found in the environment (including the biology of the child.) (Miltenberger, Raymond; Behavior Modification Principles and Procedures Third Edition)
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