Why Include Children with Challenging Behavior?

In the third edition of her popular book, Challenging Behavior in Young Children, Barbara Kaiser, who is one of the experts featured in the Exchange video training resource, Addressing Challenging Behaviors, gives this explanation of "Why should we include children with challenging behavior?":

"If children are going to learn to function in society, they must be in society. A child who interacts everyday with his socially competent peers has many opportunities to learn appropriate ways to learn appropriate ways to behave; and being accepted in a caring , nonviolent classroom community where everyone supports his attempts to act appropriately increases the chance that he'll meet those expectations....Including children with challenging behavior is the right thing to do...."

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