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Educator Nervous System
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Plan for Your Dysregulation
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Understanding Behavior
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Emotional Regulation
About Emotional Regulation
Stress Response System
Co-regulation
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Pathological Demand Avoidance or Persistent Drive for Autonomy
Positive-PDA-booklet.pdf
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Information, support and training for PDA PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance) is widely understood to be a profile on the autism spectrum, involving the avoidance of everyday demands and the use of ‘social’ strategies as part of this avoidance. PDA individuals share autistic characteristics and also have many of the
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