Here's the latest article from the Special Needs Children site at BellaOnline.com.

Positive Behavior Support and Interventions - PBIS
Challenging behavior was cited as a primary reason that students with IEPs had been blocked from inclusive classrooms in their neighborhood schools, until 1997 amendments to IDEA established PBIS as the recommended form of behavioral intervention. PBIS is now embraced as a strategy for all students.

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art58507.asp

For more information, visit
http://www.pbis.org/main.htm
and download:
Building Inclusive School Cultures Using School-wide PBS: Designing Effective Individual Support Systems for Students with Significant Disabilities

October 2008 - National Forum on Positive Behavior Support
http://www.pbisillinois.org/forum08.html
School-wide Positive Behavior Support:
Integrated Systems for ALL Students
2008 National Forum for Implementers of
School-Wide PBS
sponsored by the OSEP Center on PBIS
with support from the Illinois PBIS Network
October 30-31, 2008 Hyatt Regency O’Hare Rosemont, Illinois

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Pamela Wilson, Special Needs Children Editor
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