The Teacher's Introduction to Pathological Demand Avoidance: Essential Strategies for the Classroom

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a coordinated approach to support, with the person, family and professionals (i.e., from education, social care, healthcare, etc) involved. Brain-Body Parenting, How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids by Mona Delahooke, PHD. Some critics note that there is not enough research evidence to confirm PDA as a separate condition to autism and argue that:

This book offers many insights that would be extremely helpful to anyone working in education. The chapter on managing the needs of the PDA student in a class of thirty and the subsequent chapter about paperwork and EHCPs include great advice that could help both children and adults. This book might be one that parents would like to pass on to whoever is working with their child in another setting. Don’t let these strategies get in the way of maintaining honesty in your communication and interaction with students with PDA.Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is a term originally developed by the British psychologist Elisabeth Newson in the 1980s and first used in a published research paper by Newson in 2003. It was used to describe a group of children who did not fit into the stereotypical presentation of autism recognised at that time but who shared certain characteristics with each other, the key one being a persistent and marked resistance to demands.

the complex characteristics can instead be understood by considering the individual’s social, sensory and cognitive sensitivities, any co-occurring conditions and whether their environment is suited to their needsa direct demand (an instruction, such as ‘brush your teeth’, ‘put your coat on’ or ‘complete your tax return’) This context is important when trying to understand the history of and debate around the label Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), which was proposed as a way to describe people experiencing demand avoidance alongside a group of behaviours that were then thought to be uncommon in autistic people (and therefore necessitated a new label, it was argued). Title: Development of the ‘Extreme Demand Avoidance Questionnaire’ ( EDA ‐Q): preliminary observations on a trait measure for Pathological Demand Avoidance