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学校对行为问题的正确处理 － CNN 文章
虽然关于自闭的话题在主流媒体出现的频率有所增加，但我感觉还远远不够。
今天国会的一个对自闭孩子在学校受惩罚的调查报告上了cnn.com头版
GAO report: Special-needs kids abused in schools
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/18/siu.schools.abuse/index.html
这个报告提到许多学校对自闭孩子出现行为问题时处理失当，宾州的一个学校的处理方法值得推荐
At one school in Pennsylvania, however, teachers appear to have better results using sharply different methods.
The Centennial School at Lehigh University serves severely emotionally disturbed children that have been passed from school to school, and even from juvenile justice centers. When school director Michael George came to Centennial in 1999, the school had documented more than 1,000 cases of restraint and seclusion that year. After the school revamped its approach, no such incidents were reported.
When they get to Centennial, students can be violent and aggressive. But instead of trying to force a chance in behavior, the school teaches the children new skills to get what they need. Children who might be violent because they are desperate to escape and uncomfortable task or environment learn to communicate their discomfort in nonviolent ways.
Children who need to move frequently -- a common trait with conditions such as autism -- are permitted to do so, then re-directed to the task at hand. Staff are forbidden from saying anything negative about the children, parents or other teachers, even among themselves.
And when a child acts violently, the staff is trained to step aside, rather than immediately attempt a potentially dangerous restraint. On a recent visit to the school, all students appeared to be calm and receptive to teachers.
The school's philosophy can be summed up in a question George likes to ask teachers interviewing for jobs there: Which teacher you remember most from your own childhood?
"No one ever mentions the person who yelled at them, who screamed at them, who told them to write a phrase a hundred times, who slammed them into closets, who was abrupt, who made them feel stupid. No one ever mentions those people," said George.
"Our job is to teach. Sometimes the children we are teaching here present extraordinary challenges; it can be very, very difficult. But that's the job we chose to do."
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