When a Child Is Labeled Broken | Jana Curtis

Every afternoon we prepared for the bus. Every afternoon we held our breath. One of our young friends spoke primarily using gestures and vocalizations.By the time we were reaching for his jacket, he was flopping to the floor, kicking, screaming, hitting. We knew it was coming. We just didn't know why.And as an early childhood educator for the last 20 years, I knew exactly what was coming next. We met as a team. We wrote a behavior plan.We tracked the data. We had charts. We had graphs. We had colorcoded bin ...