Interventions and Attitudes of special education teachers in Thailand on challenging behaviors of students with disabilities: A case study A CASE STUDY
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This research aimed to identify what the strategies or interventions, data collections, and attitudes of the special education teachers in a school in Thailand currently applied and had with students with disabilities who demonstrate challenging behaviors. There were 52 special education teachers from the laboratory school in Bangkok, Thailand were recruited by using convenience sample design. Both survey questionnaire and interview data were collected. The findings indicated that the special education teachers respond to students’ challenging behaviors in similar pattern. When students demonstrated challenging behaviors the special education teachers chose to respond to the behaviors using some strategies rather than using ignorance strategy. The data collection that the special education teachers used the most was observation in order to find the cause of the behaviors before applying interventions to decrease the challenging behaviors. Discussion and limitations of this research were discussed.
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