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Behavioural Difficulties

Key Facts about Behavioural Difficulties

.Are behaviours that challenge inevitable?

There is a higher likelihood that children and adults with Smith-Magenis syndrome will show some behaviours that challenge, but we now have a very good understanding of why these behaviours occur and what we can do.  Sometimes people ask whether it is important to know about person’s genetic syndrome when understanding behaviour and you can read about this here.

 

Dr Caroline Richards introduces the term 'challenging behaviour'.

Key Fact

When we use the term challenging behaviour we do not mean that a person is inherently challenging.