Behaviour

Misinterpretation

Accurate Interpretation

• Noncompliance

• Wilful misconduct
• Attention seeking
• Stubborn

• Difficulty translating verbal
• directions into action
• Doesn’t understand

• Repeatedly making the same mistakes

• Wilful misconduct
• Manipulative

• Cannot link cause to effect
• Cannot see similarities
• Difficulty generalizing

• Often late

• Lazy, slow
• Poor parenting
• Wilful misconduct

• Cannot understand the abstract concept of time
• Needs assistance organizing

• Not sitting still

• Seeking attention
• Bothering others
• Wilful misconduct

• Neurologically based need to move while learning
• Sensory overload

• Poor social judgment

• Poor parenting
• Wilful misconduct
• Abused child

• Not able to interpret social cues from peers
• Does not know what to do

• Overly physical

• Wilful misconduct
• Deviancy

• Hyper or hypo-sensitive to touch
• Does not understand social cues regarding boundaries

• Does not work independently

• Wilful misconduct
• Poor parenting

• Chronic health problems
• Cannot translate verbal directions into action