[senco-forum] PDA -Pathoglogical Demand Avoidance Syndrome

There's some really useful material for schools on the website.
http://www.pdacontact.org.uk/noframes/guidelines.shtml

It's very much based on fear - if you can reach through to and soothe the
fear, then progress will be made.

A.

On 21/03/07, Clare North <clare at clarenorth.co.uk> wrote:
>
> PDA: Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome.
>
> I taught a girl with this once! (don't know if this is the same as your
> pupil)
>
> Elizabeth Newson (Child Development Research Unit, University of
> Nottingham)
> has written 'Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome: diagnostic criteria
> and
> relationship to autism and other developmental coding disorders'. My copy
> is
> type-written and I can't remember how / where /when I got it. I don't know
> where it was published but let me know if you need any more info. It might
> not be the same as your husband's pupil.
>
> Clare
>
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> Hello
>
>   Nyone know anything about 'pathological denial avoidance'?  Husband's
> school has just picked up a primary pupil with htis written in their
> paperwork.
>
>   Amanda
>   Secondary SENCO
>   Cornwall
>
>
> Amanda
> Secondary SENCO
> Cornwall
>
>
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