Positive Behaviour Support
TL;DR. Culture shapes what any of us reads as a “behaviour of concern.” Cultural reflexivity means continually examining how our own worldview, training and assumptions shape what we notice and prioritise — not ticking a box once and moving on. Skipping it risks pathologising adaptive cultural behaviours, disengaging families, and misreading collectivist goals through an […]
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Positive Behaviour Support
TL;DR. Restrictive and repetitive behaviours (RRBs) are a core diagnostic feature of autism. RRBs also appear in Fragile X syndrome, Rett’s syndrome, OCD, Tourette syndrome and Parkinson’s disease, but our focus here is autism, the most common primary disability among NDIS participants nationally, at around 35% of the Scheme (NDIS, 2023). Either way, we see […]
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