Importance Of Adaptive Behavior in Students
There are many skills that a person must possess in order to lead an easy life. They may include communication skills, grooming skills including self-care, social skills, self-management, health and safety, and many more. These skills help a person in adapting and adjust in all kinds of situations without any problem. In this article, we will discuss the importance of adaptive behavior in students.
What Is Adaptive Behavior?
Adaptive behavior refers to the capability of a person to practically, socially, and generally use skills that help them to cope with everyday situations. It includes one’s capacity and capability to diagnose or identify the various attributes of a particular situation and deal with it accordingly.
Adaptive behavior is a prerequisite in living independently and functioning well in life for every person able or disabled.
Importance of adaptive behavior in students:
1. Helps in assessing strengths and weaknesses:
Adaptive behavior assessment is an evaluation technique for learners who are disabled. Adaptive behavior helps in determining the strengths and weaknesses in their behavior and helps in addressing the weak areas of such learners.
2. To determine the pace of development:
Another reason why adaptive behavior is important is that it helps in assessing the pace of development of mental, physical, and social growth of a student.
We know that every individual grows with his or her respective pace, adaptive behavior assessment helps us in knowing how soon or how late can a student grasp small little skills that will help him or her in surviving and leading an easier life ahead.
3. Development of training goals:
An important task that one does after assessing adaptive behavior is to develop training goals varying with each student keeping in mind the strengths and weaknesses of each student.
Every student grows at his or her pace and the process of growth of no two people is the same, thus, it helps the parents and teachers to pay attention to the key roles of a person’s development and make sure that the development of each role is smooth and uninterrupted.
4. Identify disabilities and disorders:
One important thing that adaptive behavior assessment does is that it helps in identifying disabilities and disorders that a student has.
There are certain areas where the development of a student is not up to the mark according to the age requirement of the child, teachers and parents can identify such a situation when they assess the adapting capability of the child in various key areas of life, and when they find any kind of deficiency in it, the identification of motor, mental, physical or social disability becomes very easy.
The above mentioned are the reasons due to which adaptive behavior assessment becomes very important for students.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
