Improve Your Special Needs Child's Behavior As new parents, we start out parenting our children, as we where parented, and want our children to react the same way as we did. However, children with special needs are likely to throw us a curve ball, always when we least expect it. If the tried-and-tested ways of your mother don't work for your children, then it's time to make a change. The following strategies by Helene Goldnadel may go against what you've always been led to believe about child-rearing, but exceptional children require exceptional ingenuity.
 Behavior analysis is a start - Start with the basics of behavior analysis. Who is responsible? When, where and why did it happen? Make sure that you have all the information and make sure the punishment fits the crime.
 Use a behavior chart - You may be right in assuming that your child won't understand, follow or care about a behavior chart. If you thinking about using a traditional chore-for-reward system, you may be right. This is where you need to be creative, and come up with a chart that will give your child a reason to change his behavior. You can start with a basic chart and then tailor it to match your child's needs and wants.
 Choose you battles - "Why does everything have to an argument?" That is something that you may have asked your child a million times, but it's a question worth asking yourself, too: "Why does everything have to be a