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A Sourcebook based
on the SpeciaLink Institute on Challenging Behaviours
in Child Care.
Edited with Commentary by Sharon Hope
Irwin.
Nova Scotia: Breton Books. ISBN 1-895415-33-0.
$25.00 |
This is a book for including the children
we miss: the "wild kid," "the aggravating kid,"
the child whose behaviour frustrates us. These are the children
with challenging behaviours that, in turn, challenge the committed
child care worker to the core. A recent study by SpeciaLink
indicates that over 85% of staff in child care centres now consider
"challenging behaviours" to be their most difficult
inclusion issue. These children ARE the next frontier of child
care inclusion.
Challenging the Challenging Behaviours is
aimed at child care practitioners, consultants, trainers and
policymakers, as well as all interested parents who care about
full inclusion of children with challenging behaviours - people
who want to make a difference in child care centres across Canada.
Challenging the Challenging Behaviours is
a sourcebook about current strategies and innovations on the
front lines of Canadian child care. Built on the findings of
SpeciaLink's cross-Canada Roundtable meetings and of the national
SpeciaLink Institute, the examples throughout this book come
from parents, researchers and practitioners.
Contributors to Challenging the Challenging
Behaviours include Kate Andersen, Richard Tremblay, Linda Pagani,
Lynette Chandler, Carol Dahlquist, Elisabeth Brandt, Patricia
Clark, Carol Gardner, Chris Gay, Cathleen Smith, Ann Carr, Eleanor
Chornoboy, Leanne Keffer, Melba Rabinowitz, Theo Lax, Abby Kleinberg-Bassel,
Phillip Strain, and Mary Louise Hemmeter.
This book is constructed to continue the work
of the SpeciaLink Institute on Children with Challenging Behaviours
in Child Care. For instance, it includes a Networking Directory
of skilled Canadian practitioners willing to informally mentor
on strategies and techniques for dealing with children with
challenging behaviours. It not only provides an essential Reference
List and an Annotated Sources and Resources section with suggested
websites, it also encourages readers to participate in expanding
information and resources for the entire field by contributing
their findings through SpeciaLink, the National Centre for Child
Care Inclusion.
As editor Sharon Hope Irwin recently said
in an interview with Canadian Press, "We knew we couldn't
invite everybody in Canada to the SpeciaLink Institute on Challenging
Behaviours in Child Care. We were looking for a multiplier effect,
fairly confident that the people we invited would not only use
what they learned at the SpeciaLink Institute, but would also
promote it, spread it, and advocate for it. We were right."
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